Tjamuaha

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Tjamuaha
Ovaherero
FatherTjirwe
Tombstone for Tjamuaha, Maharero, and Samuel Maharero in Okahandja

Tjamuaha (also: Tjamuaha waTjirwe, literally English: Tjamuaha, son of Tjirwe, born ca. 1790 in

Oorlam Afrikaners, and stayed with him in Windhoek for most of his chieftaincy.[1] With Tjamuaha's death, hostilities started between the Nama people and the Herero.[2]

References

Notes

  1. ^ Dierks, Klaus. "Biographies of Namibian Personalities, T. Entry for Ua Tjirwe Tjamuaha". Retrieved 24 June 2010.
  2. ^ Vedder 1997, p. 319.

Literature

Preceded by Paramount Chief of the Herero people
1842–1861
Succeeded by