Английская Википедия:Gongo Lutete
Шаблон:Short description Ngongo Lutete (or Gongo Lutete or Ngongo Leteta) was a Songye leader and chieftain during the late 19th century.Шаблон:Sfn
Biography
As a boy Ngongo Lutete was enslaved by Arabs, but after winning his freedom he became a respected leader of the Watetera & Kilembwe people in Maniema.Шаблон:Sfn Ngongo Lutete gained control of the region around Ngandu on the upper Lomani River.Шаблон:Sfn In 1886, he joined forces with the Arab slave trader Tippu Tip near Stanley Falls, where Tip was organizing resistance to Leopold II's Congo Free State.Шаблон:Sfn On his expedition to Katanga, Alexandre Delcommune was given a magnificent reception at Ngandu by Ngongo between 2 May and 18 May 1891.Шаблон:Sfn
When the Congo Arab war began, Ngongo Lutete and his people fought for the Arabs initially, under the command of Tippu Tip's son Sefu bin Hamid.Шаблон:Sfn However, the Arabs failed to pay Lutete for his allegiance and also for some ivory which he had provided for them.Шаблон:Sfn After losing a series of engagements with Francis Dhanis, late in 1892 he changed sides and was accepted as an ally by the Belgians.Шаблон:Sfn This infuriated Sefu, who sent the Free State a message demanding that they surrender Lutete to him and threatening to drive his forces all the way to Stanleyville in the western Congo if they did not comply.Шаблон:Sfn
Ngongo Lutete fought for the Free State until September 1893, when he was accused of plotting to betray the Free State and executed.Шаблон:Sfn Lutete was executed after a drumhead court-martial chaired by a young Belgian lieutenant at which no credible evidence was presented.Шаблон:Sfn One story says that Ngongo had had his lieutenant, a Songye, killed for some offense. Other Songyes complained to the whites, presumably convincing them of treachery. The story went on to say that the whites tied Ngongo up and fired at him all day without injuring him. It was only when they removed his amulets and fired into his ear, as directed by his Luba magician, that the spirits who had been protected him left and he died.Шаблон:Sfn It is believed the soldiers he had brought over to the Belgians considered the trial to be a miscarriage of justice, and in 1895 historians assumed this was the cause of the Batetela rebellion 2 years later though other earlier sources cannot determine the cause of this revolt. Also the followers of ngongo lutete were identified as “Luba” , “Songye & Kusu” Шаблон:Sfn
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- 1863 births
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- People from Sankuru
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- People executed by the Congo Free State
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