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“Hehe Resistance or Rebellion against the Germans”

Chief Mkwavinyika
Munyigumba Mwamuyinga (1855 – 19 July 1898), more commonly known
as Chief Mkwawa, was a Hehe tribal leader
in German East Africa (now
mostly the mainland part of Tanzania)
who opposed the German colonization. The name “Mkwawa” is
derived from Mukwava, itself a shortened form of Mukwavinyika,
meaning “conqueror of many lands”.

Mkwawa was born in Luhota and was the
son of Chief Munyigumba, who died in 1879.

In July 1891, the German commissioner, Emil von
Zelewski [de], led a battalion of soldiers (320 askaris with
officers and porters) to suppress the Hehe. On 17 August, they were attacked by
Mkwawa’s 3,000-strong army at Lugalo, who, despite only being equipped
with spears and a few guns, quickly overpowered the German force and
killed Zelewski.

On 28 October 1894, the Germans, under the new
commissioner Colonel Freiherr Friedrich von Schele [de], attacked Mkwawa’s
fortress at Kalenga. Although they took the fort, Mkwawa managed to escape.
Subsequently, Mkwawa conducted a campaign of guerrilla warfare, harassing the
Germans until 1898 when, on 19 July, he was surrounded and shot himself to
avoid capture.

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