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unusual facts about Shambaa people



Mazinde

Johann Jakob Erhardt recorded the repulse of a Maasai raid in 1853 at Mazinde by an allied army of Shambaa under Semboja, son of Kimweri ye Nyumbai, and of Wazigua, Parakuyo and "Arabs" (most likely Swahili).


see also

Kimweri

Kimweri ye Nyumbai (died 1862), the ruler of the Shambaa people of the Usambara Mountains in what is now Tanzania between around 1815 and 1862

Kimweri Mputa Magogo (died 1999), a traditional leader of the Shambaa people of the Usambara Mountains in Tanzania