Lobengula

Mfalme Lobengula

Lobengula Khumalo (Septemba 1845 - Januari 1894) alikuwa mfalme wa pili na wa mwisho wa Wandebele (tawi la Wazulu katika nchi ambayo leo inaitwa Zimbabwe)

Jina "Lobengula" linamaanisha "Aliyekuwa mgonjwa".

Wazazi

Baba yake alikuwa Mzilikazi, ambaye alimtangulia Lobengula kama mfalme wa Wandebele.

Mama yake Lobengula alikuwa mke mdogo kwenye boma ya Mzilikazi, na Lobengula aliweza kumrithi baba yake kwa umaarufu wake katika vita.

Marejeo

• Hensman, Howard (1900). A History of Rhodesia. W. Blackwood and Sons. 
• Burnham, Frederick Russell (1926). Scouting on Two Continents. Doubleday, Page. 
• Wills, W. A.; Collingridge, L. T. (1894). The Downfall of Lobengula: The Cause, History, and Effect of the Matabeli War. "The African review" offices. 
• "LOBENGULA IN A TRAP.; Not Believed that the Matabele King Can Escape.". The New York Times. 3 November 1893. Iliwekwa mnamo 2016-08-18. 
• "SOUTH AFRICA: The Skull of Lobengula". TIME.com. 10 January 1944. Iliwekwa mnamo 18 August 2016. 

Viungo vya nje

• Texts of the Moffat Treaty and Rudd Concession, signed by Lobengula, which gave Britain and the British South Africa Company rights over his land Archived 24 Machi 2006 at the Wayback Machine.
• History of Lobengula: Last King of the Matebele