Mtyela Kasanda better known as Mirambo (which means corpses) was a Nyamwezi warlord from 1860 to 1884. Mirambo started out as a trader and owned trade caravans traveling from the Great Lakes region in western Tanzania to the coast mostly dealing with ivory and slaves. Through trade with Europeans he acquired firearms and money and organised armies consisting mostly of teenage orphans.
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