Maharero
Sign in to savethumb|Tombstone for Tjamuaha, Maharero, and Samuel Maharero in Okahandja Maharero kaTjamuaha ( – 7 October 1890) was the first paramount chief of the Herero people, reigning from around 1863 until his death in 1890. He oversaw the Hereros' split from the Oorlam Afrikaners and subsequent conflicts between the two ethnic groups, as well as the colonisation of modern Namibia by the German Empire.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Namibia
- Place of birth
- Okahandja
- Place of death
- Okahandja
- Child
- Samuel Maharero
- Occupation
- revolutionary
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- Work location
- German South-West Africa
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- Maharero
- date of birth
- 1820-01-01
- date of death
- 1890-10-07
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thumb|Tombstone for Tjamuaha, Maharero, and Samuel Maharero in Okahandja Maharero kaTjamuaha ( – 7 October 1890) was the first paramount chief of the Herero people, reigning from around 1863 until his death in 1890. He oversaw the Hereros' split from the Oorlam Afrikaners and subsequent conflicts between the two ethnic groups, as well as the colonisation of modern Namibia by the German Empire.
==Early life== Maharero kaTjamuaha was born about 1820 at Okahandja. In 1843 he went with his father Tjamuaha to Windhoek to stay with Jonker Afrikaner, Captain of the Oorlam Afrikaners. Tjamuaha was an ally of Jonker Afrikaner until his death in 1861, albeit in a subordinate position.
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