Paramount Chief Mpezeni

Paramount Chief Mpezeni is a chieftainship of the Ngoni people of Zambia's Eastern Province and Malawi's Mchinji district. The chieftainship 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. [ [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.]

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