Nyangwe is a town in Kasongo, Maniema on the right bank of the Lualaba in the Democratic Republic of Congo (territory of Kasongo). It was an important hub for the Arabs for trade goods like ivory, gold, iron & slaves: it was one of the main slave trading states in the region at the end of the 19th century. The town was founded around 1860, and a first Sultan named Dougombi (métis) established in 1868. Ramazani Munia Muhara (Manyema) was the Sultan the town by the time of the Congo-Arab war during 1892–1894 in Kasongo, Maniema It is believed the first contact with WaSwahili traders from Zanzibar (from the Monarchy of Zanzibar descended from Omani Empire) in Nyangwe dates back to the Abbasid expeditions to East Africa where it is reputed that Abbasid Caliphs sent punitive expeditions to the Islamized city-states of the Somali coast and Zanzibar set up governors there where Abbasid victory saw the both: the impositon of the kharāj acceptance of the doctrine of the createdness of the Quran by 837 CE Indeed, the 9th-century writer al-Jāḥiẓ records an Omani expedition to East Africa in the late 7th century, but it was defeated. The sultans of Mogadishu, Mārka, Barāwa, Faza, Sīwī, Bata, Manda (Munda), Ṭaqa, Lamu (Āmu), Ūzi, Malindi(Malūdi), Uyūmba, Kilifi, Basāsa, Zanzibar, Kilwa and Waybu (possibly a tributary of the Shebelle) are among those who accepted the emissary. Gervase Mathew dates this to 766–767 and considers it a military expedition. Nyangwe and the greater part of Kasongo, Maniema later became the capital of the Sultanate of Utetera (under the control of the Sultanate of Zanzibar) descended from the Monarchy of Zanzibar between 1696 and 1890 CE and thus, an offshoot of the Omani Monarchy before the death of Said bin Sultan in 1856 when the empire was divided between his sons into two sultanates: an African section called the Sultanate of Zanzibar through Majid bin Said and an Asian section called the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman ruled by Thuwaini bin Said. It is believed it was established after the Arabs drove out the original inhabitants in and around the village. As a result, the original inhabitants of the place called the Wagenya had become distrustful of any foreigners visiting the region. David Livingstone was the first European to visit the town in 1871. Livingstone stated that on July 15, 1871, and he witnessed approximately 400