NGONI SUCCESSION AFTER PARAMOUNT CHIEF MPEZENI IV’S DEATH
The Ngoni are a patrilineal society. Succession follows the male line, unlike matrilineal groups such as the Chewa and Bemba, where heirs are determined through the mother’s lineage. From the time of Zwangendaba Jere, founder of the Ngoni Kingdom 1820s–1848, the death of an iNkosi (king) was treated as a state event. Early Ngoni oral …