Molapo

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Molapo (* 1814 - June 28, 1880 in Leribe ; also Molapo Jeremiah Moshoeshoe ) was a head ( Sesotho morena , English chief ) of the Basotho people in historic Lesotho and in the British colony of Basutoland .

Life

Molapo was the second son of morena e moholo Moshoeshoe I , the founder of the Basotho nation, and his chief wife 'Mamohato. Another son of the main wife was Masopha . At the request of his father, Molapo and his older brother Letsie attended the first Christian school in the Basotho area in Morija from 1833, which had been set up by the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris . There he was baptized in 1840 and was given the name Jeremiah. Later he distanced himself from Christianity.

Remains of Molapos' settlement in Leribe (before 1865)

He and his followers settled near Leribe on both sides of the Caledon . He was the only Mosotho in the region who could read.

During the Seqiti War , he signed a peace treaty with the Boers of the Orange Free State . He had to admit the loss of his territory west of the Caledon. In doing so, he also forced the other heads, including his father, to agree to the cession of the remaining areas west of the river in the "Peace of Thaba Bosiu ". With the establishment of the British colony of Basutoland in 1868, Molapo was recognized as the traditional head in the Leribe area.

Moshoeshoe managed to get Letsie's first-born daughter Senate to marry Molapo's son Josefa so that their first son could become the inheritance - but the plan failed because Josefa was mentally ill. Molapo died shortly before the Gun War broke out . Like his father and several brothers, he was buried on Mount Thaba Bosiu .

Molapo had several wives and, in addition to Josefa, numerous other children, including Jonathan Molapo and Joel Molapo, who fought for the successor for decades. One of his descendants was the first Prime Minister of Lesotho, Leabua Jonathan , son of a concubine of Jonathan Molapo.

Others

The Bana ba Molapo ("Children of Molapos") are an association that refers to Molapo as ancestors.

literature

  • Scott Rosenberg, Richard W. Weisfelder, Michelle Frisbie-Fulton: Historical Dictionary of Lesotho. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland / Oxford 2004, ISBN 978-0-8108-4871-9 , pp. 271-272.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Scott Rosenberg, Richard W. Weisfelder, Michelle Frisbie-Fulton: Historical Dictionary of Lesotho. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland / Oxford 2004, ISBN 978-0-8108-4871-9 , pp. 271-272.
  2. ^ Scott Rosenberg, Richard W. Weisfelder, Michelle Frisbie-Fulton: Historical Dictionary of Lesotho. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland / Oxford 2004, ISBN 978-0-8108-4871-9 , p. 285.
  3. ^ A b Scott Rosenberg, Richard W. Weisfelder: Historical Dictionary of Lesotho. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland / Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-0-8108-7982-9 , p. 198. Excerpts from books.google.de
  4. ↑ Data on the Lesotho mansion at archive.li (English), accessed on November 26, 2018
  5. ↑ Bana ba Molapo , accessed on November 25, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Molapo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Molapo Jeremiah Moshoeshoe (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chief of the Basotho
DATE OF BIRTH 1814
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1880
Place of death Leribe