Mwanawina II
{{Infobox monarch
| name = Mwanawina II
| title = Litunga
| image = Seven Years in South Africa, page 357, Wana Wena, the new king of the Marutse.jpg
| caption = Mwanawina II in the book Seven Years in South Africa (1881)
| queen = Unknown
| issue = Mwangala
| father = Sibeso
| mother = One princess
| religion =
}}
Mwanawina II was a king or chief of the Lozi people in Zambia, Africa, a member of the third dynasty of Litungas. His full title was Mulena Yomuhulu Mbumu wa Litunga.
Biography
= Family =
Mwanawina was a son of Prince Sibeso, who was a son of the King Mulambwa Santulu. Sibeso was killed in 1863.{{cn|date=August 2020}}
Siblings of Mwanawina were Chief Musiwa and one more chief (name unknown).
He became a king after his uncles Silumelume and Mubukwanu.Kingdoms of the savanna by Jan VansinaA history of Africa in the 19th century by Esther I. NjiroThe Elites of Barotseland, 1878-1969 [https://books.google.com/books?id=9UgvebNqxOMC&dq=Silumelume&pg=PA9 by Gerald L. Caplan]
= Reign =
Mwanawina was proclaimed king at Katongo. His daughter was named Mwangala, but her mother is not known.On the Threshold of Central Africa: A Record of Twenty Years' Pioneering among the Barotsi by François Coillard and Catharine Winkworth Mackintosh
Mwanawina appointed Mwangala when she was one year old to the throne in the south.
He was deposed and expelled by his nobles and killed (poisoned or starved to death) on an island near Ng'ambwe in 1879.[https://books.google.com/books?id=rgvCAAAAIAAJ&dq=Mwanawina+II&pg=PR10 Emil Holub's Travels North of the Zambezi, 1885-6 by Emil Holub]
Sources
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060511000000/http://www.barotseland.com/history3.pdf Makololo interregnum and the legacy of David Livingstone] (PDF)
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