Lobengula and cecil rhodes

Lobengula family tree
Who was mzilikazi's father
King lobengula

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Alban Njube Lobengula, Iqanda le Ngwenya: A Chronicle of a Royal Heir's Exile and Despair

Alban Njube Lobengula, Iqanda le Ngwenya: A Chronicle of a Royal Heir’s Exile and Despair by R. S. Roberts Njube, was born c.1878–18801 to Lobengula’s wife, Mpoliyana,2 daughter of Mabuyana, son and successor of Gundwane, the senior Ndiweni leader, who had led the main group of the Ndebele from the Transvaal to the upper Ncema. She was thus sister (or half sister) of Faku, the regent at that time of the main Ndiweni chieftainship, on the headwaters of the Gwayi and Kame (south west of modern Bulawayo);3 and this distinguished ancestry marked her out as one of the most important of Lobengula’s wives after Lozekeyi.4 And Njube, although only third in order of birth of the six sons of Lobengula who survived into the Occupation period, was the oldest of the four ‘royal’ sons, born that is after Lobengula’s accession5—the three younger than him being Mpezeni (born c.1881), Nguyoboenja (born c.1887), and Sidojiwe (born 1888 or even later).6 When Lobengula abandoned his capital in November 1893

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Lobengula

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King of Matabeleland (reigned 1868-1894)

Lobengula Khumalo (c. 1835 – c. 1894) was the second and last official king of the Northern Ndebele people (historically called Matabele in English). Both names in the Ndebele language mean "the men of the long shields", a reference to the Ndebele warriors' use of the Nguni shield.

Background

The Matabele were descendants of a faction of the Zulu people who fled north during the reign of Shaka following the mfecane ("the crushing") or difaqane ("the scattering"). Shaka's general, Mzilikazi led his followers away from Zulu territory after a falling-out. In the late 1830s, they settled in what is now called Matabeleland in western Zimbabwe, but they claimed sovereignty over a much wider area.

Members of the tribe had a privileged position against outsiders whose lives were subject to the will of the king. In return for their privileges, however, the Ndebele people both men and women had to submit to a strict discipline and status within the hierarchy. That set o

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