Bror Macdonell: 1 book
Mzee Ali
The Biography of an African Slave-Raider turned Askari and Scout
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
‘Mzee’ is the Swahili word for an ‘old timer’, a respected elder. Mzee Ali Kalikilima was born near the present-day town of Tabora in western Tanzania, probably in the 1870s (there is mention of ‘The Doctor’—Dr David Livingstone) to black Muslim parents of noble birth. Aged 14, Mzee...
