Yeta III

Yeta III
Litunga of Barotseland
Spouse Queen Kumayo
Issue
among others		 Ilute
Father King Lewanika
Mother Queen Ma-Litia
For other kings, see Yeta I and Yeta II Nalute. There is also an island Yeta.

Yeta III was a King of Barotseland, one of the greatest High Chiefs of the Lozi people in Zambia.

Family

Parents of Yeta were King Lewanika and Queen Ma-Litia.[1]

Yeta married a woman called Kumayo[2] who became his consort at Sefula Church in 1892. They were baptized together.

Later Yeta married another woman.

His children were:

Reign

Yeta was a great ruler. He was enthroned at Lealui on March 13, 1916 and abolished the traditional system of corvee, the last vestige of slavery on 1 April 1925.

Yeta attended the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at Westminster Abbey in London, but suffered a severe stroke which caused partial paralysis and loss of speech in early 1939.[4] Yeta’s secretary wrote: "The Coronation was the greatest event we ever saw or will ever see in our lives again. Nobody could think that he is really on earth when seeing the Coronation Procession, but that he is either dreaming or is in Paradise."[5]

He abdicated in favour of his younger brother Imwiko.

Sources

  1. ↑ Howard, Dr. J. Keir (2005). "Arnot, Frederick Stanley". Dictionary of African Christian Biography. Retrieved 2011-12-14.
  2. ↑ Family tree of Litungas
  3. ↑ Family tree of Litungas
  4. ↑ The Elites of Barotseland, 1878-1969 by Gerald L. Caplan
  5. ↑ Hobsbawm, Eric and Ranger, Terence (1983). The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1-107-60467-4 (p. 241).

See also

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