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[[File:John Harrison Clark.png|thumb|260px|A photograph reputed to show John Harrison Clark in later life in [[Kabwe|Broken Hill]], [[Northern Rhodesia]]|alt=A middle-aged, moustachioed gentleman sits with his arms folded outside a house.]] | [[File:John Harrison Clark.png|thumb|260px|A photograph reputed to show John Harrison Clark in later life in [[Kabwe|Broken Hill]], [[Northern Rhodesia]]|alt=A middle-aged, moustachioed gentleman sits with his arms folded outside a house.]] | ||
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'''John Harrison Clark''' or '''Changa-Changa''' (c. 1860–1927) effectively ruled much of what is today southern Zambia from the early 1890s to 1902. Alone and unassisted, he arrived from South Africa in about 1887, reputedly as an [[outlaw]], and assembled and trained a private army of [[Senga people|Senga]] natives, which he used to drive off various bands of [[slave raiding|slave-raiders]]. He took control of a swathe of territory on the north bank of the [[Zambezi]] river called Mashukulumbwe, became known as Chief "Changa-Changa" and, through a series of treaties with local chiefs, gained mineral and labour concessions covering much of the region. | '''John Harrison Clark''' or '''Changa-Changa''' (c. 1860–1927) effectively ruled much of what is today southern Zambia from the early 1890s to 1902. Alone and unassisted, he arrived from South Africa in about 1887, reputedly as an [[outlaw]], and assembled and trained a private army of [[Senga people|Senga]] natives, which he used to drive off various bands of [[slave raiding|slave-raiders]]. He took control of a swathe of territory on the north bank of the [[Zambezi]] river called Mashukulumbwe, became known as Chief "Changa-Changa" and, through a series of treaties with local chiefs, gained mineral and labour concessions covering much of the region. | ||
