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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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personal possession of King
Leopold II of Belgium.
Msiri, the King of Katanga, (no such
title exist,
Msiri is a
title for
local authority in area controlled...
- 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...
- 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...
-
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...
-
Msidi (
Msiri), who
ruled a
large area in what is now
Katanga Province in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, with its
capital at Bunkeya.
Msiri invited...
- 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...
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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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killed Msiri, King of
Garanganze (Katanga) on 20
December 1891 at
Bunkeya in what is now the DR Congo.
Bodson was then
killed by one of
Msiri's men. Omer...
