African Entrepreneurship Chronicles
Chapter 87

Chaos in the Northwest

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The Kingdom of Karagwe had been having a hard time lately.

As large numbers of tribes and refugees from the east poured into the Kingdom of Karagwe, public security there had worsened with every passing day.

As a slaveholding kingdom, the Kingdom of Karagwe already had rather poor organizational capacity, lacking strict laws and institutions of every kind.

Most of these Eastern Bantu tribes driven out by the East African colonizers lived by hunting, and their physical condition was extraordinarily strong.

Compared with the Kingdom of Karagwe, which had developed to a certain stage in Africa, the Bantu people's great exodus struck Karagwe no differently from how the Germanic barbarians had invaded ancient Rome.

Under the leadership of their chiefs, these Bantu people, organized by tribe, murdered, burned, looted, and seized mountains to proclaim themselves kings within Karagwe's borders.

Eastern Karagwe swiftly descended into chaos.

Karagwe's nobles were naturally furious, unable to understand what madness had possessed these barbarians to keep streaming westward.

The Kingdom of Burundi was in the same predicament. Affected by the East African colony's "rectification" campaign, Burundi and Karagwe, as the two gateways to the Eight Northwestern Kingdoms, naturally bore the brunt of it.

The invasion of countless Bantu tribes caused grave trouble for both nations. Worst of all, neighboring countries such as the Kingdom of Rwanda and the Kingdom of Buganda, seeing their neighbors in misfortune, began to stir restlessly as well, frequently provoking incidents along the border.

Following the principle of "if you show no mercy, neither will I," the Kingdom of Karagwe and Burundi decided to go all the way.

Since they could not manage so many Bantu tribes, they simply stopped trying. They directly used force to drive them west and north, letting the countries to the west and north taste the

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