Barotse
or MAROTSE, an important Bantu tribe inhabiting the banks and the regions E. of the upper Zambezi, from about 14° to 18° S. lat. In Livingstone's time the Makololo were the dominant tribe in these parts of South Africa, but since then they have been almost entirely annihilated by the Bantus, who now occupy the vast territory from the Kabompo river to the Victoria Falls.
Formerly they were inhabitants of Mashonaland, where many of them were destroyed by the Matabili, while the others retired into upper Zambezi valley.