Maravi

Maravi was a Chewa confederacy in what is now Malawi. The Banda arrived by the thirteenth century; the later Phiri migrants from Katanga supplied the Kalongas.

In 1622 Kalonga Muzura defeated Lundu with Portuguese help, but his attack on Portuguese Quelimane failed in 1629. Succession disputes fractured the confederacy in the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century Yao chiefs' slave raids further weakened it; around 1837 the Maseko Ngoni also raided Chewa communities.