The Hehe (Swahili collective: Wahehe) are an ethnic and linguistic group based in
Iringa Region in south-central
Tanzania. In 1994 the Hehe population was estimated to number 750,000
[1].The Hehe began as a number of independent chiefdoms made up of mixed people who were in some instances related to one another. They are a
Bantu-speaking people and can be considered typical of the military chiefdoms brought to East Africa by the Ngoni groups, who live primarily in Iringa Region. Historically, no chiefdom had over 5,000 people; in contemporary Hehe society the political authority of chiefdoms has been replaced by a combination of locally elected leaders and administrators appointed by the district, regional, and national government. The Hehe speak Kihehe and share many cultural practices. The Wahehe had no political unity until the mid-1800s, when they were unified by Chief Munyigumba of the Muyinga dynasty and became the dominant tribe in the region. They became famous for their remarkable success in war. Under the rule of Munyigumba's son,
Chief Mkwawa, they encountered and fought fiercely with the colonizing
German Empire Schutztruppe forces but had little bureaucracy, rituals, myths, or institutions of a civil nature (see
German East Africa). They were ultimately defeated, and in
1898 Mkwawa committed suicide rather than suffer capture.
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Хехе, вахехе —
народ, обитающий в
юго-
западной
Танзании в регионах Иринга и Мпвапва (Мбея). Большинстве хехе разговаривает на языке кихехе восточной группы
банту. Хехе наиболее родственны к народам бена, погоро, матумби и мдемдеум.Численность хехе во второй половине
XX века стабильна, в
1967 и
1994 годах насчитывалось около 0,75 млн человек.Хотя большинство хехе придерживается африканских традиционных верований, значительная часть —
растафари и
христиане, при этом удельный вес
анимистов снижается. При этом у новообращённых растаман часто присутствуют
языческие традиции.
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