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Mbuya Nehanda (Charwe Nyakasikana)

c. 1840/1862 – 1898

Southern Africa (Mashonaland, Zimbabwe)

A Shona spirit medium of the ancestral spirit Nehanda who helped lead resistance to the British South Africa Company in the First Chimurenga of 1896-97. She was hanged in 1898.

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Aerial view of the Great Enclosure at Great Zimbabwe, the ancient Shona stone city in Zimbabwe
Credit: Janice Bell, via World History Encyclopedia (originally Wikipedia: File:Great-zim-aerial-looking-West.JPG). License: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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  1. BlackPast.org, "Mbuya Nehanda (c. 1840-1898)" (Reference)
  2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Charwe" (Reference)
  3. Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, "Spiritual Medium Mbuya Nehanda Defied Colonialists in 19th-Century Zimbabwe" (2021) (Reference)

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