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Mputa
Mputa, also called Mputa Maseko, was a leader of the Maseko Ngoni in the mid-nineteenth century. He led his people north to the Songea area of southern Tanzania, where they lived for some years before being defeated by rival Ngoni groups and driven south again. His son Gomani I later became paramount chief of the Maseko in what is now southern Malawi.
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