Lovale and Lozi Genealogical Trees
Lovale Tree
This Lovale Tree shows the descent (and sex) of the various "Heads" of the Lovale Tribe, as established (to the best of his ability) by George Suckling.
The "Head" of the tribe went by various terms, just as The Queen may also be referred to as the Sovereign, the Monarch or the Head of State.
In the Tree below, some names have "K", some have a "C", some have a "Ng" and some have a "Nd", all of these followed by a Roman number.
It's a guess that the "Nd" = "Ndungu". Perhaps "C" = "Chief", though that is not a Si-Lovale word. Perhaps "Ng" = "Ngambela". Your suggestions are invited !
It must be remembered that, until the advent of the European explorers, the indigenous tribes had no written language, no pencils, no paper ! So everything was conveyed from generation to generation by word of mouth.
Also, they had no concept of historical dates (years) and no base year to start counting from.
In this context, you may care to read what Gervas Clay, Counsel for the Barotse, wrote many years later on the subject of verbally-transmitted history - see the document entitled "Dangers in accepting African traditions" on the "New Stories" shelf at http://www.spanglefish.com/northernrhodesiajournal/library.asp
This Tree was in the File, so it is posted here. Please don't expect us to understand it !
The second image was produced by Family Tree Builder, so the data is now also available as a GEDCOM - if you don't know what that is, you won't want it, but if you do want a copy, just ask.
Lozi Tree
There was also, amonst Gervas Clay's papers, an A0 size Genealogical Tree of the Lozi succession. Where he got this is not known, but it may be a copy of a document held in some Archive - the Museum in Livingstone, perhaps - a copy that he acquired in the 1960s when he was writing his biography of "Your friend, Lewanika".
This will be scanned and transcribed and posted here eventually. Probably.
In the meantime, there is a comprehensive Tree of the Lozi at
http://www.royalark.net/Zambia/lozi.htm
These two have not been compared. And again, in case you missed it above, it is worth repeating:-
In this context, you may care to read what Gervas Clay, Counsel for the Barotse, wrote many years later on the subject of verbally-transmitted history - see the document entitled "Dangers in accepting African traditions" on the "New Stories" shelf at http://www.spanglefish.com/northernrhodesiajournal/library.asp
