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Msiri (c. 1830 –
December 20, 1891)
founded and
ruled the Yeke
Kingdom (also
called the
Garanganze or
Garenganze kingdom) in south-east
Katanga (now in...
- Congo, was short-lived,
existing from
about 1856 to 1891
under one king,
Msiri, but it
became for a
while the most
powerful state in south-central Africa...
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state under the
ruler Msiri. In the
later 19th-century,
Bunkeya was the
capital of
Msiri, the son of an East
African trader.
Msiri's father had been in the...
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Republic of Congo. They
established the Yeke
Kingdom under the warrior-king
Msiri, who
dominated the
southern part of
Central Africa from 1850 to 1891 and...
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Maria de
Fonseca was the
great wife of
Msiri, the
powerful warrior-king of Katanga, at the time when the
Stairs Expedition arrived in 1891 to take possession...
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Expedition became notorious for the fate of
Msiri.
After three days of
negotiations without progress,
Stairs gave
Msiri an
ultimatum to sign the
treaty the next...
- from
beginning to end. (The
Sultan of
Zanzibar and
Msiri later took
control of that route, with
Msiri rather than
Kazembe as the linchpin.) In 1867 the...
- east of
Msiri.
Sharpe was in
competition with
Belgian King
Leopold II's
Congo Free
State (CFS)
which had
already tried sending expeditions to
Msiri. Sharpe...
- Instead,
Msiri decamped to
another stockade.
Stairs sent a
force to
capture him but
Msiri stood his ground,
whereupon Captain Omer
Bodson shot
Msiri dead...
- for colonization. The
mission became notable when a
local chief, (Mwenda
Msiri), was killed, and also for the fact that Stairs, the
leader of one side...
