Nyangwe
Sign in to savethumb|right|upright=1.33|Arab slavers shooting at women at the market of Nyangwe during the massacre witnessed by David Livingstone in 1871 Nyangwe is a town on the right bank of the Lualaba River, in the Maniema Province in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (territory of Kasongo). In the second half of the 19th century, it was an important Swahili–Arab hub for trade goods like ivory, gold, iron and slaves, remaining one of the main slave trading centres until the Congo Arab war.
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thumb|right|upright=1.33|Arab slavers shooting at women at the market of Nyangwe during the massacre witnessed by David Livingstone in 1871 Nyangwe is a town on the right bank of the Lualaba River, in the Maniema Province in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (territory of Kasongo). In the second half of the 19th century, it was an important Swahili–Arab hub for trade goods like ivory, gold, iron and slaves, remaining one of the main slave trading centres until the Congo Arab war.
The town was founded as an Arab trading depot around 1860. It subsequently became a part of the Sultanate of Utetera, ruled by the Swahili slave trader Tippu Tip and associated with the Zanzibar slave trade of the Sultanate of Zanzibar.