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Chief of the Yao, Defier of the Germans, African Resistance Leader for a Nine-Year Struggle
: Chief Machemba of the Yao defied the Germans also in 1890 and it took 9 years to force him to negotiate peace. (From: NTZ.info.)
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“[Machemba, leader of the Yao People, 1890, to the German commander] I do not fall at your feet, for you are God's creature just as I am...”
Source: "Africa: A Biography of the Continent," by John Reader, Vintage Books, New York, 1997. Part 7: The Scramble, Chapter 49: Resistance, Pages 582-3.
A Biography of a Continent
: "Africa: A Biography of the Continent," by John Reader, Vintage Books, New York, 1997.
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