Notes, References and Further Reading

  1. Chryselephantine statues were made in Greece from the 6th century BC but had previously been known in Egypt, Crete and Mesopotamia; it was a type of sculpture where the flesh was made of ivory and the clothes of gold.
  2. Zeinab Badawi (2024) An African History of Africa. London: Penguin Random House
  3. Ryan Francis Murphy (2013) Exterminating the Elephant in “Heart of Darkness” https://www.jstor.org/stable/24614055?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
  4. Brian Morris (2006) The Ivory Trade and Chiefdoms in Pre-Colonial Malawi https://www.jstor.org/stable/29779210?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
  5. E.D.Moore (1931) Ivory Scourge of Africa https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77345/page/n5/mode/2up
  6. African Parks (2022) Elephant Conservation in the Context of High Human-Wildlife Conflict https://www.africanparks.org/elephant-conservation-context-high-human-wildlife-conflict
  7. Rodney C. Wood (1958) Elephant Island on Lake Nyasa https://www.jstor.org/stable/29545810?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
  8. C.O. Dudley (1979) The History of the Decline of the Larger Mammals of the Lake Chilwa Basin https://www.jstor.org/stable/29778421?read-now=1#page_scan_tab_contents
  9. John M. Mackenzie (1988) The Empire of Nature. Manchester: Manchester University Press
  10. Hew Stevenson (2010) Diary of William Stevenson, Elephant Hunter https://www.jstor.org/stable/29783618?read-now=1#page_scan_tab_contents
  11. James Stevenson (1888) The Arabs in Central Africa and at Lake Nyassa https://archive.org/details/arabsincentralaf00stev/page/n7/mode/2up
  12. Bridglal Pachia (1973) Malawi: The History of the Nation https://archive.org/details/malawihistoryofn0000pach
  13. Mwaona Nyirongo (2015) Tumbuka Nkhamanga Kingdom https://mscehistorynotes.wordpress.com/2015/09/06/tumbuka-nkhamanga-kingdom/
  14. University of Oxford (2021) African elephants only occupy a fraction of their potential range https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-03-31-african-elephants-only-occupy-fraction-their-potential-range
  15. Johannes Gutenberg University (2023) Neanderthals hunted elephants: Earliest evidence found of humans killing elephants for food https://press.uni-mainz.de/neanderthals-hunted-elephants-earliest-evidence-found-of-humans-killing-elephants-for-food/
  16. Lionel Casson (1993) Ptolemy II and the Hunting of African Elephants https://www.jstor.org/stable/284331?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
  17. Aviad Agam & Ran Barkai (2018) Elephant and Mammoth Hunting during the Paleolithic: A Review of the Relevant Archaeological, Ethnographic and Ethno-Historical Records https://www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/1/1/3
  18. Carl W. Bishop (1921) The Elephant and Its Ivory in Ancient China https://www.jstor.org/stable/284331?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
  19. Bradscribe (2014) The Port of Barygaza https://sakastana.wordpress.com/2014/06/17/port-of-barygaza/
  20. Mathew Adam Cobb (2021) World-Systems Theory, Globalization or Glocalization – analysing the dynamics of the ancient Indian Ocean ivory trade? https://f-origin.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/211/files/2021/04/resume-mc.pdf
  21. Felix Chami and others (2002) East Africa and the Middle East relationship from the first millennium BC to about 1500 AD https://www.persee.fr/doc/jafr_0399-0346_2002_num_72_2_1304
  22. Thomas Vernet Slave Trade and Slavery on the Swahili Coast 1500 – 1750 https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00671040/file/Slave_trade_and_slavery_on_the_Swahili_coast-T._Vernet_.pdf
  23. Don Pinnock (2022) The myth of too many elephants in Kruger Park, and why culling is redundant https://www.africanelephantjournal.com/the-myth-of-too-many-elephants-in-kruger-park-and-why-culling-is-redundant/
  24. EPI Secretariat (2023) Malawi’s Elephants: 5 Decades on https://www.elephantprotectioninitiative.org/post/malawi-s-elephants-5-decades-on
  25. Rosie Mills (2023) A Brief History on Majete Wildlife Reserve https://www.africanparks.org/brief-history-majete-wildlife-reserve#:~:text=The%20recovery%20has%20been%20so,only%20part%20of%20the%20story.
  26. African Parks Network () Fauna & Flora https://www.africanparks.org/the-parks/majete/fauna-flora
  27. Graig Reid (2017) Liwonde National Park Annual Report https://www.africanparks.org/sites/default/files/uploads/resources/2018-07/Annual%20Report%202017%20-%20Liwonde.pdf
  28. University of Oxford (2021) African elephants only occupy a fraction of their potential range https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-03-31-african-elephants-only-occupy-fraction-their-potential-range
  29. ADF (2023) The Kingdom of Maravi https://adf-magazine.com/2023/07/the-kingdom-of-maravi/#:~:text=The%20religious%20capital%20of%20the,and%20later%2C%20to%20Portuguese%20merchants.
  30. W.H.J. Rangeley (1963) The Arabs https://www.jstor.org/stable/29545948?read-now=1#page_scan_tab_contents
  31. Shadreck Billy Chirembo (1993) Colonialism and the Remaking of the Chikulamayembe Dynasty 1904 to 1953 https://www.jstor.org/stable/29778687?read-now=1#page_scan_tab_contents
  32. Kings M. Phiri (1984) Yao Intrusion Into Southern Malawi, Nyanja Resistance and Colonial Conquest 1830 – 1900 https://www.jstor.org/stable/24328494?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

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