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Munyigumba
Munyigumba was a chief of the Hehe who in the mid-19th century united many small chiefdoms of the southern highlands of present-day Tanzania by conquest and alliance, adapting the military methods of the invading Ngoni. He died in 1879, and his son Mkwawa emerged from the succession struggle as ruler of the Hehe.
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