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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 | '''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-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. | ||
Starting in 1897, Clark attempted to secure protection for his holdings from the [[British South Africa Company]]. The Company took little notice of him. When a local chief, Chintanda, complained to the Company in 1899 that Clark had secured his concessions while passing himself off as a Company official and had been collecting [[hut tax]] for at least two years under this pretence, the Company resolved to remove him from power, and did so in 1902. Clark then farmed for about two decades, with some success, and moved in the late 1910s to [[Kabwe|Broken Hill]], where he became a prominent local figure, and a partner in the first licensed [[brewery]] in [[Northern Rhodesia]]. Remaining in Broken Hill for the rest of his life, he died there in 1927. | Starting in 1897, Clark attempted to secure protection for his holdings from the [[British South Africa Company]]. The Company took little notice of him. When a local chief, Chintanda, complained to the Company in 1899 that Clark had secured his concessions while passing himself off as a Company official and had been collecting [[hut tax]] for at least two years under this pretence, the Company resolved to remove him from power, and did so in 1902. Clark then farmed for about two decades, with some success, and moved in the late 1910s to [[Kabwe|Broken Hill]], where he became a prominent local figure, and a partner in the first licensed [[brewery]] in [[Northern Rhodesia]]. Remaining in Broken Hill for the rest of his life, he died there in 1927. | ||
