Sidi Mubarak Bombay
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Sidi Mubarak Bombay, Mbarak Mombée, was a waYao explorer and guide, who participated in numerous expeditions by 19th century British explorers to East Africa.
Sidi Mubarak Bombay and companions (1877)
Yao people (East Africa)
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The Yao people are a Bantu ethnic group living at the southern end of Lake Malawi. The Yao are a predominantly Muslim-faith group of about two million, whose homelands encompass the countries of Malaw
Sidi Mubarak Bombay
…Sidi Mubarak Bombay (c. 1820–1885), Mbarak Mombée, was a waYao explorer and guide, who participated in numerous expeditions by 19th century British explorers to East Africa. A waYao (subgroup of the Bantu peoples…
Nine- to ten-year-old boys of the waYao tribe participating in circumcision and initiation rites (March 2005)
Yao dancing man, 1896
A Yao traditional doctor shows his homemade stethoscope he uses for treatment
A Yao woman brings her child to a well baby check where it receives an injection in a rural village in northern Mozambique