Paramount Chief Mpezeni
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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, 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 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 – )
- Zwangendaba (1815 - 1848)
- Regency (1848 - 18xx)
- Mpezeni I (1848 - 1900)
- Mpezeni II (1900 - 1928)
- Mpezeni III (1928 - 1981)
- Mpezeni IV (1981 - to date)
References
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- ↑ 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.
