Omer Bodson

Omer Bodson (5 January 1856 – 20 December 1891) was the Belgian officer who shot and killed Msiri, King of Garanganze (Katanga) on 20 December 1891 at Bunkeya in what is now the DR Congo. Bodson was then killed by one of Msiri's men.^[1]

^ David Gordon: "Decentralized Despots or Contingent Chiefs: Comparing Colonial Chiefs in Northern Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo." KwaZulu-Natal History and African Studies Seminar, University of Natal, Durban, 2000. (Note that many 'This Day in History' websites give the date as 17th December 1891, and list for that date "Belgian Captain Omer Bodson died in battle [sic]").

[1] David Gordon: "Decentralized Despots or Contingent Chiefs: Comparing Colonial Chiefs in Northern Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo." KwaZulu-Natal History and African Studies Seminar, University of Natal, Durban, 2000. (Note that many 'This Day in History' websites give the date as 17th December 1891, and list for that date "Belgian Captain Omer Bodson died in battle [sic]").

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