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unusual facts about Paramount Chief



Anatole Marie Nkou

He is also the younger brother of His Majesty Innocent Ondoa Nkou, Paramount Chief of the Evouzok-Ewondo tribe (Fifinda) and Vice General Manager of the BICEC Cameroun groupe BPCE.

Bai Kelfa Sankoh

Bai Kelfa Sankoh is a Sierra Leonean paramount chief representing Kambia District, one of the five districts that make up the Northern Province.

Bindi Hindowa Samba

Bindi Hindowa Samba is a Sierra Leonean paramount chief of Bo District, one of the four districts that make up the Southern Province.

Casqui

The tribe takes its name from the chieftain Casqui who ruled the tribe from its primary village thought to be located in present day Cross County, Arkansas near the town of Parkin.

Fifinda

It hosts also the Chefferie Superieure of the Evouzok Ewondo Tribe ruled by the paramount chief Innocent Ondoa Nkou.

Nukulau

Williams held Cakobau, the Vunivalu (Paramount Chief) of Bau and self-proclaimed Tui Viti (King of Fiji) responsible for the looting, and, supported by the United States Navy, demanded US$43,531 in compensation, to cover Williams' losses, valued at US$5000, and claims by other settlers.

Premier of the Kingdom of Viti

In 1871, Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau, the Vunivalu (Warlord/Paramount Chief) of Bau, succeeded in unifying the previously warring tribes throughout the Fiji Islands by establishing the Kingdom of Viti, with the support of foreigners.

Sierra Leone Progressive Independence Movement

The party suffered from repression from the government, SLST and Paramount Chiefs.

Soccoh Kabia

He is the son of one of the most famous women leaders in the history of Sierra Leone, Paramount Chief Madam Ella Koblo Gulama, an ethnic Mende from Moyamba District and Paramount Chief Bai Koblo Pathbana II, an ethnic Temne from Lunsar, Port Loko District.

St. Mary's City, Maryland

A Yaocomico village had formerly occupied the location, but the "Tayac" "Kittimundiq", paramount chief of the Piscataway Indian nation, ordered the village cleared and gave it to the English newcomers.


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Anjua Loeak

Anjua Loeak is the current iroijlaplap (or paramount chief) of Ailinglaplap, and one of four paramount chiefs in the Marshall Islands.

Chiefdom

The most succinct definition of a chiefdom in anthropology is by Robert L. Carneiro: "An autonomous political unit comprising a number of villages or communities under the permanent control of a paramount chief" (Carneiro 1981: 45).

Dabala

This beautiful town is the capital of the Agave people where the Paramount Chief of Agave (the Agave fiaga) presides over his chiefs.

Don Luis

Some historians, among them Carl Bridenbaugh, have speculated that Don Luís was the same person as Opechancanough, younger brother (or close relative) of Powhatan (Wahunsonacock), paramount chief of an alliance of Algonquian-speakers in the Tidewater.

Epenisa Cakobau

The son of the late Ratu Sir George Cakobau (1912–1989), the former Vunivalu of Bau (Paramount Chief of Kubuna (1957–1989) and Governor-General of Fiji (1983-1983), he is also a great-great grandson of Seru Epenisa Cakobau, the warlord who established the first unified Fijian Kingdom in 1871 and ceded it to the United Kingdom in 1874.

Epuli Aloh Mathias

Chief Epuli Aloh Mathias is Paramount Chief of the Bassossis in the South West Region of Cameroon.

Fiji Native Tribal Congress

The Congress is administered by a Trust Board comprising: the Paramount Chiefs of two of Fiji’s three tribal confederacies – namely, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, Paramount Chief of the Tovata Tribal Confederacy and Ro Teimumu Kepa, Paramount Chief of the Burebasaga Tribal Confederacy.

Hintsa kaKhawuta

Hintsa ka Khawuta (1789 – 12 February 1835), also known as Hintsa the Great or King Hintsa, was the 4th paramount Chief of the Gcaleka sub-group of the Xhosa nation from 1820 until his death in 1835.

History of Lesotho

The present Lesotho (then called Basutoland) emerged as a single polity under paramount chief Moshoeshoe I in 1822.

Kono language

The Kono District is situated in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone and contains 14 chiefdoms, each headed by a Paramount Chief.

Le Mamea Matatumua Ata

His daughter Laulu Fetauimalemau Mata'afa was a teacher and ambassador who married the first Prime Minister of Samoa, the paramount chief Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu’u II.

Losalini Raravuya Dovi

He was a scion of the chiefly clan of the Tui Nairai or paramount chief of Nairai island in the Lomaiviti Group.

Luchazes

The Municipality is now under the traditional authority of a Mbunda Paramount Chief Mwene Kangamba, who ascribes to the Mbunda Monarch, His Majesty, King Mbunda III Mbandu Lifuti restored on 16 August 2008, in Moxico, Angola.

Mavinga, Cuando Cubango

Mavinga is one of the four Mbunda municipalities in Angola, predominantly occupied by the Mbunda under the traditional authority of a Mbunda Paramount Chief Mwene Chondela, who ascribes to the Mbunda Monarch, His Majesty King Mbandu III Mbandu Lifuti restored on 16 August 2008, in Moxico, Angola.

Monarchy of Fiji

In the late 1840s, the Vunivalu or ruler of Bau, Tanoa Visawaqa (died 1852) declared himself Tui Viti, which translates as "King of Fiji" or "paramount chief of Fiji".

Moshoeshoe

Moshoeshoe I, c.1786-1870; paramount chief of southern Sotho; founder of Basuto kingdom (later Basutoland, then Lesotho)

Mpisekhaya Ngangomhlaba Sigcawu

Mpisekhaya Ngangomhlaba Sigcawu was the 9th paramount chief of the Gcaleka sub-group of the Xhosa nation from 1923 to the 2 June 1933.

Munjuku Nguvauva II

Dirk Mudge, leader of the National Party, attempted to include Nguvauva II as representative of the 1975–1977 Turnhalle Constitutional Conference in the delegation of Clemens Kapuuo, Paramount Chief of the Herero.

Niumataiwalu

This latter attribute would eventually attract the attention of one of the noble ladies of Bau, causing an illicit affair and leading to his eventual demise, for the lady was the Radini Levuka, wife of the Vunivalu or Paramount Chief of the Kubuna Confederacy.

Phalo kaTshiwo

Phalo ka Tshiwo was a paramount chief of the Xhosa nation from 1736 until his death in 1775.

Ratu

They are the heirs of Seru Epenisa Cakobau, the Vunivalu of Bau or Tui Levuka (Paramount Chief of Bau, on the eastern side of Viti Levu, Fiji's most populous island), who was the first chief to unite the entire country under his authority in 1871, when he was proclaimed Tui Viti (King of Fiji).

Sailosi Kepa

Kepa was married for many years to Ro Teimumu Kepa, an Adi (Fijian chief) and politician in her own right, who is currently (June 2005) the Roko Tui Dreketi (Paramount Chief) of the Burebasaga Confederacy and Minister for Education in the government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase.

Sarili kaHintsa

Sarili ka Hintsa (about 1810 - 1892) was the 5th chief of the Gcaleka sub-group of the Xhosa nation, and paramount chief of all the Xhosa, from 1835 until his death in 1892 at Sholora, Bomvanaland.

Semesa Sikivou

Sikivou, who hailed from Rewa Province, belonged to the tribe of the Roko Tui Dreketi's Guardians of the Spirit and the Wise Counsel, and as such was a member of the traditional court of the Paramount Chief of the Burebasaga Confederacy.

Valdezia

Chief Nhjakanhjaka, who was a headman of Spelenkon, exercised authority over thousands of Tsonga refugees, but Joao Albasini, a Portuguese adventurer of 'mixed blood' or half caste, also contested for power over the control of the thousands of Tsonga refugees in the Spelenkon district, at the end, Chief Nhjakanhjaka was undermined when Joao Albasini declared himself a paramount chief of all Tsonga people in the whole Spelenkon district .