Paramount Chief Mpezeni

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
  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.
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