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Mbuya Nehanda

c. 1840-1898 · Africa · Modern

Zimbabwean spirit medium who helped lead resistance against colonial rule in the 1890s.

Birthplace
Africa
Known as
Zimbabwean spirit medium who helped lead resistance against colonial rule in the 1890s.

Mbuya Nehanda (c. 1840-1898) endures among the great of Africa. Zimbabwean spirit medium who helped lead resistance against colonial rule in the 1890s. Across the modern age, this life and its works passed into the shared inheritance of humankind — kept here so the memory is never lost. Honored among the Great Ones of every civilization. Africa is the cradle of humankind; in the deepest sense, these are everyone’s ancestors — and so this name is kept, from the cradle of humanity to all its children.

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