Rengua

Rengua or Mangi Rengua Kombe Kiwaria (1784–1837), also known as Mangi Rengua of Machame (Mangi Rengua in Kichagga; (Mfalme Rengua in Swahili) was a king of the Chaga in Machame, a major sovereign Chagga states in the early 1800s. Mangi means king in Kichagga.^[1] Rengua's great great grandfather, Ntemi, established the Machame chiefdom, after a split from Sieny settlement, across river Kikafu. It was his eldest son, Kombe, famously known as Kombe Msu (or Kombe I), that later founded the Kombe dynasty, which ruled until the 1960s, including through turbulent political times in the western Chaga history and bitterly competing Chaga states. Rengua, however, was the one that consolidated Machame as one of the most powerful kingdoms in Chaggaland and is considered one of the greatest leaders in Machame history and a major inspirator of later chagga politics that dominated in the mid to later part of the 19th century.^[2][3][4][5] He is also known for massacring Kibosho initiates at Kimbushi, around Makoa area, in Machame, prompting the rivalry between Kibosho and Machame.