Maravi

Maravi, a historic people of South Africa, yvho formerly held a dominant position in the region south-west of Lake Nyassa. They are mentioned in the missionary reports of the 17th century, and they figure on D'Anville's map, and the great Lake Maravi 'known at that time by hearsay, and since identified with Livingstone's Lake Nyassa, was named from them. Later they were driven from most of their territory by the Maviti, Angoni, and other Zulu invaders, and in 1863 Livingstone found them confined to the Deza plateau, near the south end of Nyassa. Since then they have almost disappeared altogether, although in 1884 Consul O'Neill heard of a broken Maravi tribe in the Mihawani district, south-east of the Namuli highlands. They appear to be a Bantu people belonging to the same stock as the present Manganjas. (Livingstone, Last Journal.)