Kimweri ye Nyumbai

Kimweri ye Nyumbai is remembered as the greatest of the Kilindi kings, under whom the Shambaa kingdom reached its widest reach in the first half of the nineteenth century. Ruling from Vugha through a web of appointed chiefs, he embodied the sacred kingship in its fullest form, holder of the rain magic inherited from Mbegha and guarantor of the land's fertility. In the traditions his long reign stands as the golden age of the kingdom, and his death precipitated the ruinous succession war between his son Semboja and his grandson Shekulwavu that broke the realm apart.

Parentage

• parent: KinyashiSteven Feierman, The Shambaa Kingdom: A History (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1974). (secondary)

Children

• Semboja

Domains

• sovereignty
• rain

Powers

• rules the kingdom at its greatest extent
• controls the rain of the kingdom

Epithets

• ye Nyumbai — of NyumbaiSteven Feierman, The Shambaa Kingdom: A History (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1974). (secondary)

Relations

• parent: KinyashiSteven Feierman, The Shambaa Kingdom: A History (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1974). (secondary)
• child: SembojaSteven Feierman, The Shambaa Kingdom: A History (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1974). (secondary)

Sources

• Kimweri ye Nyumbai (c. 1790s-1862), son of Kinyashi, was the Kilindi king under whom the Shambaa kingdom reached its greatest extent, ruling from Vugha and credited with control over rain and the fertility of the land.: Steven Feierman, The Shambaa Kingdom: A History (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1974). (secondary); Abdallah bin Hemedi 'lAjjemy, Habari za Wakilindi, ed. J. W. T. Allen (Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau, 1962). (primary)