Mwamuyinga (c. 1855 – 19 July 1898), more commonly known as Chief Mkwawa or Sultan Mkwawa, was a Hehe tribal leader in German East Africa, based in Kalenga...

resistance for seven years thereafter under the leadership of their chief Mkwawa. The use of Wahehe as the group's designator can be traced to their war...

Mkwawa is an administrative ward in the Iringa Urban district of the Iringa Region of Tanzania. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report...

Governor Friedrich von Schele which attacked and captured Mkwawa's fortress at Kalenga, although Mkwawa and most of his warriors escaped. Prince interrupted...

Chief Mkwawa resisted German expansion. They were defeated because rival tribes supported the Germans. After years of guerrilla warfare, Mkwawa was cornered...

Mkwawa. Abushiri was later captured and hanged in Pangani in December 1889. After Abushiri's defeat Germans were engaged in a war with Chief Mkwawa of...

the Hehe people. After their defeat at Lugalo by the Hehe, led by Chief Mkwawa, the Germans built a military station at 'Neu Iringa' to avenge the death...

Merere to his homeland if he guarded Uhehe's western border against Mkwawa. Mkwawa was defeated in his capital, Iringa in 1896 and declared an 'outlaw'...

highlands under their control under their chiefs Munyigumba Muyinga and Mkwawa since the 1860s. The Hehe trains extended into the area of the caravan route...

was decisively defeated and almost annihilated by the Hehe army of Chief Mkwawa. This was the first major defeat for the German Schutztruppe and the beginning...