Rengua

Rengua or Mangi Rengua Kiwaria Kombe (1784 – 1837), also known as (Mangi Rengua of Machame), (Mangi Rengua in Kichagga), (Mfalme Meli, in Swahili) was a king of the Chaga in Machame, one of the sovereign Chagga states in the early 1800s. Mangi means king in Kichagga. Rengua was part of the Kombe dynasty, an imperial dynasty that ruled from Rengua's period in the second half of the 19th century to the 1960s was founded by him. The mangi rule remained with one house (Kombe) throughout all vicissitudes, even intermediate times of anarchy when competing clans were essentially independent and times of deadly family rivalry. He is also infamously remembered for massacring Kibosho initiates at Kinduchi, Lyamuro, bringing on the infamous Kibosho and Machame rivalry. He consolidated Machame as one of the most powerful kingdoms in Chaggaland. Because of this Rengua is considered one of the greatest leaders in Machame history.