Kinjikitile Ngwale

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Kinjikitile Ngwale (* in the 19th century, † 16 July 1905 or August 4 or 5. August 1905 in Mohoro ) increased in 1904 with his Maji Maji -Kult in the German East African colony , now Tanzania , the basis for the later Maji Maji uprising against German colonial rule .

Life

Ngwale first appeared around 1902 in Ngarambe on the western slopes of U matumbi as a so-called healer who possessed the “magical power of lilingu ”. He earned his living from farming, he had several wives and numerous children.

In 1904 a ghost is said to have taken possession of him: "He fell on his stomach, stretched his arms and began to crawl," they say. He crawled into a nearby pond and spent the night in it. After he stepped out of the pond the next day in dry clothes, he is said to have made political speeches.

He was henceforth possessed by the spirit Hongo and was regarded as a leader and prophet. One day Ngwale prophesied to his followers that a war was imminent and that the ancestors would stand by them.

He is in possession of maji maji medicine; miraculous water that could render the Germans' weapons harmless and weaken their soldiers.

Shortly after the outbreak of the uprising, Ngwale was arrested by the German Schutztruppe on July 16, 1905 and hanged on July 16, August 4 or August 5, 1905 .

The person Kinjikitile Ngwale is mentioned in the play Kinjeketile by Ebrahim Hussein, in the crime novel maji-maji by Rainer Beuthel and in the novel Die Brückenbauer by Jan Guillou .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kornelia Freier: On the 100th anniversary of the Maji Maji War , p. 10, in: * Contributions to the 100th anniversary of the Maji Maji War Memorial 2005 ( Memento from December 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) in Habaris Online 4/2005, (PDF file; 688 kB), viewed July 8, 2010
  2. ↑ a b c Christian Kopp: Timeline for the MajiMaji war , p. 7 in: Topic: 100-year Maji-Maji commemoration ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 688 kB) In: Habaris Online 4/2005 , on tanzania-network.de, seen July 8, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tanzania-network.de
  3. ↑ Anonymous: How the uprising began in Matumbi in 1905. According to P. Ambrosius Mayer, OSB In: Gott wants es! , No. 8, 08. 1914, pp. 225–233 mhudi.de ( RTF ; 28 kB), reference as part of the Maji Maji Bibliography Project on mhudi.de, viewed July 8, 2010
  4. ↑ a b Bartholomäus Grill: A German Hell. In: Die Zeit , No. 27/2005
  5. ↑ Phyllis G. Jestice: Holy people of the world. ABC-CLIO Ltd., 2004, pp. 480-481, p. 675, online at books.google.com, viewed July 8, 2010
  6. ^ A. Adu Boahen: Africa Under Colonial Domination 1880-1935. James Currey Publishers, 1997
  7. ↑ see Ebrahim N. Hussein: Kinjeketile . Oxford University Press, Dar es Salaam [u. a.] 1969, ISBN 0-19-572029-6
  8. ↑ Rainer Beuthel: Introduction from maji-maji , pp 47-51 in: Topic: 100th Maji Maji commemoration. ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 688 kB) In: Habaris Online 4/2005 , on tanzania-network.de, seen July 8, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tanzania-network.de
  9. ^ Jan Guillou: Die Brückenbauer , p. 538. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich, 2012, ISBN 978-3-453-41077-0
personal data
SURNAME Ngwale, Kinjikitile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tanzanian healer and preparer of the Maji Maji uprising
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1905 or August 4, 1905 or August 5, 1905