Significant1840 – 1890 · 50 years

Ngoni invasions of East Africa

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Songea · Tukuyu · Lake Nyasa · Zululand · Mozambique · Malawi

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Northward migrations of Zwangendaba and Maseko Ngoni from Zululand across the Zambezi into Malawi and southern Tanzania.

Belligerents5

Ngoni
Hehe
Yao
Bena
Ngoni (Zwangendaba, Maseko, Mpezeni)

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Ngoni invasions of East Africa (1840 – 1890). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/ngoni-invasions-of-east-africa · Sources & methodology