Paramount Chief Mpezeni: Difference between revisions

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. <ref>[http://www.nrzam.org.uk/NRJ/V1N2/V1N2.htm ''The Northern Rhodesia Journal'' online at NZRAM.org: T W Baxter:"The Angoni Rebellion and Mpeseni."] Vol I, No. 2, pp14-24 (1950). Website accessed 29 April 2007.</ref>