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now are Wapangwa people, etc. This happened before Germany came. Mnyigumba forced the Bantu people now Hehe to follow their culture and religion a special the Dress Mgolole and the scuf and turban, all are similar to Iranian dress. After several years, Germany came and started fighting with Mkwawa and his Hamitic Slaver people (Hehe). This name was given by Germany after they defeated them, also the Germany given Vassel named as SS-Wahehe to remember them for making trouble against them.
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in January 1892, "I ask you to come quickly. I will show you the way...and stand by you in the war....The Hehe are gathering their men to defeat me. I beg not to leave me alone this year." German officers were ordered to help enemies of the Wahehe and encircle Mkwawa (The M refers to a single person
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Mostly run away and hide themselves to avoid being enslaved, and rich to different areas such as Usangu Basin now their call Sangu people. Others went to Ukinga Maountan, now are Kinga Peoples, followed with group who went to hide in the Bena Caves now are Wabena Manga, others went to Pangwa Mountain
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Sangu, Bena and Kinga are part of the Niger-Congo-Bantu people who lived in Iringa province before ivory and slave hunters Ngazija (Shia Iranian) from Comoro came. The Ngazija Iranian people are part of the family of Mnyigumba Muyinga, the father of Chief Mkwawa, they hunters used Hamitic People from
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It took until December 10, 1896, to re-install Merere III of Usangu, back in his capital of Utengule, which his father had lost 22 years earlier to the Wahehe. Merere II had died in 1893, soon after the journal's completion, having been declared by his people as being mentally incompetent and been
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to representatives of the coastal regions and were the first to adopt the weapons, tactics, and organization of the Ngoni and began to dominate the highlands until a civil war broke out with the death of the Merere.
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at least three times. The Sangu people repeatedly attempted to return to Utengule but failed. They retreated westwards into Usafwa, finally forcing the Wasafwa to build a new Utengule near present-day
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Ethiopia as their guide to hunt and kill an elephant at Idodi. One of them was Mwalunyungu, Mwakilangi, Mwakiyeyeu, Mwamapenbe to catch Bantu peoples for carrying ivory to the ocean (Zanzibar).
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Bauer Andreus, (Raising the Flag of War) - ('Raising the Flag of War'', is the journal of this slow encirclement of Mkwawa and his Wahehe in cooperation with the Wasangu).
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removed, with his son becoming successor but never, however, considered truly sovereign. By 1907 the Wasangu numbers were thought to be about 30,000.
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It still, however, took until the end of 1896 before Mkwawa was defeated in his capital, Iringa, was made an 'outlaw' and reduced to waging
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Merere II, having lost his homeland to the Hehe, wrote to German Governor
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This article is about the Sangu people of Tanzania. For other uses, see
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In 1987 the Sangu population was estimated to number 75,000
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which was to become one of East Africa's most elaborate
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Munyigumba of the Muyinga family of the Hehe people,
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Tanzania
Sangu
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