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taking women in marriage and men into their fighting regiments. Their prestige became so great that by 1921, in Nyasaland alone, 245,833 people claimed membership as Ngoni although few spoke the Zulu dialect called Ngoni. The Ngoni integrated conquered subjects into their warfare and organization, becoming more a ruling class than an ethnic group, and by 1906 few individuals were of pure Ngoni descent. Only after Ngoni status began to decline did the tribal consciousness of the component groups began to rise, along with their reported numbers. In the early 1930s the Ngonde, Nyasa, Tonga and other groups once again claimed their original tribal status.
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wounded. Their entrails hung out of frightfully torn wounds, inflicted most likely by barbed spears. It was a pitiful sight — the groans of the wounded, the women crying over their dead, whose bodies were brought from the gardens, the men standing about helplessly and depressed. As the raiding party could not have been far off, I proposed to the men to follow them up at once, and try to release the prisoners, but they were disheartened by the misfortune that so suddenly had overtaken them. The Ngoni people celebrate a festival of first fruits known as Nc'wala in late February at Mutenguleni about 25km from Chipata.
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On my arrival I found the male population all under arms, and the women crying. A raiding party of Mpezeni's people had attacked them suddenly that morning. Ten women were killed in the gardens and twenty-two were taken away as prisoners. An old man and one of the headman's children had been severely
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While the Ngoni were primarily agriculturalists, cattle were their main goal for raiding expeditions and migrations northward. Their reputation as refugees escaping Shaka is easily overstated; it is thought that no more than 1,000 Ngoni crossed the Zambezi river in the 1830s. They raided north,
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Fifteen folk tales of the Ngoni, as retold by an old Ngoni man who had heard them from his grandmother, written down by Margaret Read and edited by Geraldine Elliot, were published in London in 1939. There have been many reprint editions in both America and UK.
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1780–1848), was the head of the Jele or Gumbi clan, which itself formed part of the larger emaNcwangeni alliance in what is now north-east kwaZulu-Natal. In 1819, the Zulu army under Mabaso defeated the Ndwandwe alliance at a battle on the
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Following Zwangendaba's death in 1848, succession disputes split the Ngoni people. Zwangendaba's following and the Maseko Ngoni eventually created seven substantial Ngoni kingdoms in Tanzania, Zambia and Malawi.
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While the Ngoni have generally retained a distinct identity in the post-colonial states in which they live, integration and acculturation has led to them adopting local languages; nowadays the
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The cruelty and ruthlessness of Mpezeni's raids can be understood from this account written by a British hunter who came across a Chewa village a few hours after a raid in 1897:
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nation to dominance in southern Africa in the early nineteenth century (~1815–~1840) disrupted many traditional alliances. Around 1817, the
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following the Zulu wars had repercussions in social reorganization as far north as Malawi and Zambia.
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river, sometimes given in early writings as 1825, has been argued to have been on 20 November 1835.
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In 1897, with over 4,000 warriors, Mpezeni rose up against the British, who were taking control of
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In the following decades, Zwangendaba led a small group of his followers north through
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Thompson, T.J. (1981). "The Origins, Migration and Settlement of the Northern Ngoni".
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Christianity in Northern Malaŵi: Donald Fraser's Missionary Methods and Ngoni Culture
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and Malawi's Mchinji district. His successors as chief take the title
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alliance, which included the Zulu clan, came into conflict with the
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by Geraldine Elliot. George Routledge & Sons Ltd, London 1939
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warfare techniques to conquer and integrate local peoples.
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is used only for a few ritual praise poems and songs.
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