Livingstone’s Tribe: A Journey From Zanzibar to the Cape
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Stephen Taylor. Livingstone’s Tribe: A Journey From Zanzibar to the Cape
Livingstone’s Tribe
STEPHEN TAYLOR
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
PART ONE GOING OUT
1. The Island
2. The Coast
3. The Inland Sea
4. The Nyanza
5. The Enclave
6. The Hills
7. The River
8. The Mountains
9. The Valley
10. The Plains
11. The Steppe
PART TWO COMING BACK
12. The Lake
13. The Mission
14. The Escarpment
15. The Plateau
16. The Ridge
17. The Kraal
18. The Reef
19. The Bay
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Author
About the Publisher
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A Journey from Zanzibar to the Cape
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I dismissed these melancholy thoughts. After all, the fact that the colony had dispersed indicated that Caroline and her ladies had succeeded in equipping the slaves’ descendants for reintegration into the world. That, surely, was no small legacy. In fact, it was only later, when I came across the accounts by Steere’s successor, Frank Weston, that the full extent of Mbweni’s failure became apparent.
Weston arrived in 1908, a very different character from his predecessor. Where Steere was imperious, Weston was diffident. While Steere offered authoritarian leadership, Weston sought to involve Africans in decision-making. It was not long before old hands, and most notably Caroline, were comparing the new bishop unfavourably with Steere. The truth is that Weston was an unusually far-sighted and astute man and had quickly comprehended Mbweni’s real problem. The place looked charming with its well-kept roads, coconut plantations and neat houses; but the forcefulness of the mission leadership, far from equipping its dependants to live beyond its boundaries, had institutionalised them. Left to their own devices, they lacked initiative and motivation. Moreover, proselytising had made little impact. Far from being Christians, most of Mbweni’s inhabitants had reverted to the practice of witchcraft.
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