10,006 Abibisika (Black Gold) Points

Rank: Unranked Obibini

The slave trade from Mozambique and southern Tanzania was carried out by agents of the – arab(emphasis mine) sultanate of Zanzibar – in cooperation with some “African”(quotations mine) tribes. Raids and prisoners of war were the typical sources of slaves. Written accounts from the time describe how slave traders marched African slaves 400 miles from the area around Lake Malawi in the interior to the Tanzanian coastal city of Kilwa Kivinje on the Indian Ocean. This written history corresponds exactly with the oral history of the Somali Bantu elders with origins in Mozambique. Bantu refugees with ancestral origins in northeast Tanzania, primarily the Zigua and Zaramo, similarly describe how their ancestors were transported by sea from the Tanzanian port city of Bagamoyo to southern Somalia.
Although many slaves were sold to european buyers with destinations beyond Africa, some slaves were sold to “Africans”(quotations mine) to work on plantations on the continent. Some Africans slaves from Kilwa were transported to the Somali port cities of Merka and Brava where they were forced to work plantations near the indian Ocean coast and in the Shabelle River valley.
(quotations are meant for emphasis that not everyone on The Continent is an “African”)
The Somali Bantu, Their History and Culture. Dan van Lehman, Omar Eno. pg 7