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Mbuya Nehanda

c. 1863–1898

Zimbabwe

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Biography

Nehanda Nyakasikana helped inspire Shona resistance to British colonial rule in the 1890s and became a lasting symbol of Zimbabwean liberation.

c. 1686–c. 1755

c. 1801–1832

c. 1822–1865