Chiramba

Chiramba lies on the southern side of the lower Zambezi, in the country of Sena-speaking communities. During the eighteenth century it was part of the lands known as prazos, where estate holders sought tribute from the people living inland from the river. Their authority was contested: in 1797 the traveller Francisco José de Lacerda reported that communities in the interior of Chiramba had risen against the estate holder and no longer paid the customary tribute.