Paramount Chief Mpezeni

Paramount Chief Mpezeni is the King 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]^[2]

Paramount Chiefs or Inkosi ya makosi (1815 to date)[]

Zwangendaba (1815–1848)
Regency (1848–?)
Mpezeni I (1848–1900)
(1900–1928)
(1928–1981)
(1981 to date)

References[]

^ T W Baxter: "The Angoni Rebellion and Mpeseni." The Northern Rhodesia Journal, Vol I, No. 2, pp14-24 (1950). Website accessed 29 April 2007.
^ "NGONI CHIEFTAINCY". The Awakening of the Angoni.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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[1] T W Baxter: "The Angoni Rebellion and Mpeseni." The Northern Rhodesia Journal, Vol I, No. 2, pp14-24 (1950). Website accessed 29 April 2007.

[2] "NGONI CHIEFTAINCY". The Awakening of the Angoni.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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