Nyangwe

Nyangwe is a locality of the Maniema, on Right Bank of the Lualaba in current the Democratic republic of Congo (territory of Kasongo). It one of the principal stations was developed by the slave of the end of the XIXe century in the area.

The city was founded towards 1860. It was directed starting from 1868 by a Sultan or Wali mongrel called Dougombi. Munia Muhara directed the city at the time of the Campagnes of the State independent of Congo against Arabo-Swahilis (1892). It counted at the time approximately 30.000 inhabitants

David Livingstone was the first European to visit it in 1871. It was the last city known on Lualaba while coming from the east, and Livingstone thought that it was the higher course of the the Nile. Henry Morton Stanley visited the locality and descended the river in 1877 in company of Tippo Tip, and newcomer with Boma, establishes that it was acted in fact of the higher course of the Fleuve Congo. Verney Lovett Cameron passed there in 1874 and Hermann von Wissmann in 1883.

The city was definitively acquired with the State independent of Congo the March 4th 1893 when Francis Dhanis took the city in Arabo-Swahilis.

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