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Samuel Maharero
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Maharero, Samuel 

Years of birth and death unknown. Supreme chief of the Herero tribes in Southwest Africa (Namibia) from 1891 to 1904. The first years of Maharero’s rule, after the German colonial administration made him head of the Herero, were marked by collaboration with the colonialists. However, the cruel regime of the German authorities and the oppressions to which the Africans were subjected forced Maharero to come out in defense of the interests of his people and to head a rebellion against the colonialists (the Herero and Hottentot Uprising of 1904-07). After a battle near Waterberg (August 1904), Maharero fled with some of his surviving tribesmen to Bechuanaland.
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He was pained and astonished to learn that Samuel Maherero (the "paramount chief" created by the Germans) had forsaken Germany and her unlimited supplies of rum for the purpose of going into rebellion, and that not only was Samuel a rebel, but he was the leader, the life and soul of the movement.
How the Germans exterminated the Hereros. (History: Namibia) by New African
It was only when German intrigue and German policy thrust the ineligible Samuel Maherero into power, merely to use him as their willing tool, as paramount chief of all the Hereros, that the customs of the people were violated, their tenderest feelings outraged.
How the Germans got the land. (Feature: Namibia) by New African
 
 
 
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