Garanganze people
The Garanganze, Yeke or Bayeke are a people of
Msiri and his people were originally
In 1891, Msiri was killed by the
Mwami Mwenda chieftainship
The Garanganze still maintain the Mwami Mwenda chieftainship at Bunkeya, after it was exiled by the Belgian colonial authorities for some years to the Lufoi River. The chieftainship is named in honour of Msiri whose full name was Mwenda Msiri Ngelengwa Shitambi. The current chief who was enthroned in 1997 is Mwami Mwenda VIII, named Mwenda-Bantu Godefroid Munonga.[2]
The official history of the Garanganze claims that the chieftainship survived despite neglect and opposition from the Belgian colonial authorities. However other sources say that the Belgians, whose first treaty in Katanga was with Mwami Mwenda II Mukanda-Bantu whom they had installed after killing Msiri, used the chieftainship to bolster colonial rule, conferring on the chiefs an importance which the Yeke, a relatively small tribe, did not warrant from their numbers.[1]
See also
- Msiri
- Yeke Kingdom
- Stairs Expedition
References
- ^ a b De l'Aleph à l'@: Les Peuples Yeke website accessed 7 May 2007.
- ^ a b Mwami Msiri, King of Garanganze Archived 2019-07-18 at the Wayback Machine Website accessed 7 May 2007
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