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Nyungu ya Mawe

d. 1884 · 19th century

Nyungu ya Mawe was a Nyamwezi warlord of the 19th century in what is now western Tanzania. A member of the ruling house of Unyanyembe, he broke with his kin and the Arab traders of Tabora in the 1860s and from around 1870 used bands of ruga-ruga to conquer the Kimbu chiefdoms to the south. He ruled through appointed officials rather than hereditary chiefs, creating an unusually centralised state.

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Nyungu ya Mawe. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/nyungu-ya-mawe
MLA: “Nyungu ya Mawe.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/nyungu-ya-mawe. Accessed .
Chicago: The Epoch Institute. “Nyungu ya Mawe.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/nyungu-ya-mawe.
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