Paramount Chief Mpezeni

From Chalo Chatu, Zambia online encyclopedia

Paramount Chief Mpezeni is a chieftainship of the Ngoni people of Zambia's Eastern Province and Malawi's Mchinji district.

Overview

The chieftainship was founded by Zwangendaba, a former general of King Shaka of the Zulu people, who fled the mfecane. It is named after the Ngoni warrior-king Mpezeni (also spelt Mpeseni) who rose up in 1897 with over 4000 warriors against the British Empire who were taking control of Nyasaland and North-Eastern Rhodesia, and was defeated. He signed a treaty which allowed him to rule as Paramount Chief of the Ngoni and his successors use his name in the title to this day. [1]

Paramount Chiefs or Inkosi ya makosi (1815 – )

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