2.2 African Civilizations up to 19th century (Wanga,Buganda And Nyamwezi )

• What is meant by a civilization
• The Wanga kingdom of western Kenya
• The kingdom of Buganda
• The Nyamwezi of western Tanzania
• Importance of ancient African civilizations to modern society
• Best practices from the early civilizations

• examine the development of selected early civilizations in Africa
• analyse the importance of ancient African civilizations to modern society
• apply the best practices from the early civilizations
• appreciate contributions of early civilizations

“How do the early civilizations differ from the current leadership structure?”

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1. Wanga, Buganda and Nyamwezi
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   Three African states that developed before the colonial period, and how each was organised.
2. What these civilizations contribute today
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   Why pre-colonial African civilizations matter to modern society, and which of their practices are worth carrying forward.
3. Locating Wanga, Buganda and Nyamwezi
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   Where the three civilizations stood, when they rose, and why geography made each of them a different kind of state.
4. Wanga political organisation
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   How the Nabongo, elders, chiefs and army held the only centralised Bantu kingdom in Kenya together.
5. Wanga economy and society
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   Farming, iron, trade, clans, Were and hospitality - what paid for the Nabongo's court and how people lived under it.
6. Buganda political organisation
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   Kabaka, Katikiro, Lukiko and the appointed saza chain - how Buganda ran as a centralised state.
7. The Buganda economy: why bananas fed a state
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   How a banana surplus on well-watered soils released people from farming and paid for the offices of a state.
8. Clans, king and royal women in Buganda
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   How clan membership by birth and administrative power by appointment were deliberately kept apart, and the offices held by royal women.
9. The Nyamwezi: from ntemi chiefdoms to Mirambo
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   How trade and firearms shifted Nyamwezi power from many small ritual chiefdoms to warlords who could control a caravan road.
10. The Nyamwezi caravan trade
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    The central caravan route, the Nyamwezi porters who worked it, Tabora as an inland warehouse, and what the trade cost.