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A Note on Hereditary Titles

Hereditary titles are italicized throughout to distinguish them from personal names. I use standard roman type only when the title in question is accompanied by the name of its holder, or when the context makes it plain that I am alluding to one particular, if unnamed, individual incumbent. Thus, for example, I write the “Ruund of the Mwant Yav” to refer to the people who acknowledged the sway of an undetermined number of successive holders of the royal title (Mwant Yav), but the “Ruund of Mwant Yav Mukaz” to describe the followers of one specific king—in this case, Mukaz, who briefly held the reins of power in the Ruund heartland in the 1880s.