Who Is Maseko

Amangcamane Ayakhuluma!

So I have finally come to deal with the subject of my immediate family. For so long I have been engaged in trying to raise the consciousness of Africans, trying to understand the situation we are all in in order to discover solutions for our emancipation. Emancipation, Freedom, Liberation…all these words mean the same thing, but they are used so frivolously these days, so much that they appear to have lost their original meaning.

Of course we celebrate freedom day on the 27^th of April in S.A., Africa Liberation Day is increasingly celebrated on the 25^th of May in Africa and the Diaspora, and questions of whether we are truly free keep coming causing more frustration.

Some of us are taking the liberal perspective by saying that we can either keep complaining and remain complacent or we can join the celebration of the small yet significant freedoms we have won and do the best we can with what we’re given. It seems there are many people who just like myself are concerned with about the lies that are told daily to them by the so called powerful, here’s a sneak preview of what one ‘family’ or nation is up to:

From the Amangcamane Facebook Page:  Facebook:

Bongani Jakes Maseko: “There's no better tribe than the other but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't tell or write the truth about our history and its origin.Shaka,Mzilikazi and all the other known and then emerging leaders had come from the descendants of the great Nguni founder King Ndlovu(800-900 A.D).The ruling Kings of the time b4,during and after Shaka were all following the Maseko Ngcamane Kings who carried the royal heritage at the centre of the oldest monarchy in the Southern Africa.Shaka(1787-1828) is d founder of the Zulu nation only. When he was born the Maseko's were ruling in Swaziland(SD)under the rulership of King Khabangobe Maseko,the son of King Maphanga kaNgcamane.We, as boMaseko, have taken our surname after King Maseko who lived approximately 1009 to1100. So,if u still feel Maseko's are Zulus, think again! Maseko's in Malawi, are Swazi's. They're the direct descendants of Prince Ngwane Maseko who left SD before the Mfecane wars. Ngwana was the son of King Maphanga and Ngwane was a Dhlamini. Like Abraham,of the Bible,King Ndlovu became the father of many nations,the Xhosa,Zulu,Ndebele Shangane,Thonga,Ndawu & others.Historians have tried to suppress and bury this rich and solid fact of the Nguni's. (over a year ago · Report)”

Ntokozo Siyabonga Maseko: “Sorry for super late reply. School really has me busy. Haven't been get much info on the net hey so Im kinda stuck, but thanx to everyone who has bin sharing the history with us. Its way more informative than the net I tell u. I need someone who will help me out with group admin so inbox me if u'd like to assist. Thanx .Over a year ago · Report”

The interesting thing that can be observed here is how few and far between these exchanges between the Maseko’s are. I also have heard a lot and even read a book about the supposed royal Ngcamane’s, being a Ngcamane myself I seem to have been both emotionally and intellectually drawn into this story of a people who are denied their rightful place and territorial inheritance. The story of the Maseko’s may not be as well known as the one between Palestinians and Jews in Israel, there is no international or even national condemnation of the Swazi regime by the African Union, infact it seems that the AU has accepted as unchangeable all the borders and nervous condition sthat were imposed upon us by colonialists. This is unacceptable and as a Maseko and a human being I cannot sit back and be complacent, many of our African master teachers taught us better than that.

When I first read the book the Return of the Ngcamane Swazi* I had was moved yet just like a lot of people my age who are more focussed on building a better personal life and earn more money, I just did not take it as a priority. Yet as the Swazi people remain sufferers in their own very rich land, impoverished and ruled by a charismatic lunatic who is not even their rightful king, it appears that these days these people have finally grown tired of the status quo. The Swazi kingdom is becoming more and more unstable and it seems like this is the perfect time to re-establish the true nation of the Ngcamane Swazi. But as all this is happening I realise that it would be doubly difficult to gain popular support for the emerging Ngcamane people simply due to lack of accessible information. The Facebook messages from the two Maseko’s I quoted testify to that fact. But in my research I also went to the world famous encyclopaedia called Wikipedia. So while this information is rather disjointed, the statement by sister Ntokozo simply warns that it is best to get together with the elders and find more knowledge from their wizened perspective, this is the generally accepted African way. But for what its worth, here’s a the official info on the Nguni history:

“The ancient history of the Nguni people is wrapped up in their oral history. According to legend they were a people who migrated from Egypt to the Great Lakes region of sub-equatorial Central/East Africa.^[1] They migrated southwards over many centuries, with large herds of Nguni cattle, probably entering what is now South Africa around 2,000 years ago in sporadic settlement, followed by larger waves of migration around 1400 AD. Nguni peoples are pastoralist groups, ethnically part of the greater Bantu group occupying much of the East and Southern parts of Africa. Many tribes and clans were forcibly united under Shaka Zulu. Shaka Zulu's political organisation was efficient in integrating conquered tribes, partly due to the age regiments, where men from different villages bonded with each other. The Nguni tribes kept similar political practises to those used by Shaka Zulu. During the southern African migrations known as mfecane, the Nguni peoples spread across a large part of southern Africa, absorbing, conquering or displacing many other peoples.”

So it appears from this bit of information that even the people of the South actually came from the North. This fact which has been attested to by many historians including the famous Magema Fuze who wrote history from the perspective of the oralists is also supported by archaeologists and scientists.  It now rests on our shoulders to connect the dots. There is also a lot of misinformation and this is fuelled by our civilisations obsession with money and other material gains. Humanity cannot thrive in such a situation and there needs to be Innovative, Creative and even Spiritual activism to transform our lives, it means bravely changing the way we think of ourselves.

 My involvement in the Ancient Egyptian initiation system seems to make more sense when viewed from a perspective of real African history, the test is in making it work for myself and for the larger number of people who love justice and are tired of living a lie.

Further reading into the Wikipedia information reveals another more disturbing yet no surprising fact that history is mostly written by the powerful while the mostly subordinate ‘public’ remains unassumingly complacent. This is an unhealthy situation and it is one of the causes of the on-going lack of Liberation and personal freedoms. The governments of the world have proven in many instances that contrary to what they say and what we are told by mass media, they are not acting on behalf of the people that vote them into power.

Although it seems like it has nothing to with this topic, the new documentary film by the famous David Guggenheim called Waiting for Superman is one of the signs that Truth shall set us free. This story tells us how the American education system is clearly failing the children and therefore the future of our world. We can no longer live within these unjust conditions because the divinity within our humanity will not allow it. “The schooling system is built to make adults happy…to create competitive people…”* says the director in an interview for Moving Pictures.

The outrageous celebrations on our freedom days are silly wastes of money when people are still impoverished materially and ideologically. None of our schools teach us what it means to be a complete human being. One of the famous African shamans (Credo Mutwa) has this to say:

“There is not a single university in Africa, even now which teaches our people the truth about themselves. There is not a single school in South Africa even now which teaches our people about what it means to be an African. Our children who will stone a Sangoma to death, who will burn an Inyanga to death with a petrol soaked car tire even now, do not know, and were never, taught that Africans were once kings of the Americas. They were founders of the amazing Olmec Civilization, whose breath taking relics craved in eternal stone still amaze visitors in museums to this day.

Our children who would gladly spit at the face of a sangoma, who hate the traditional dress of their people, would gladly put on a highland kilt, not knowing that amongst the founders of the Scottish nation were black men and woman and that the surnames of some of these Scotsmen, confirm this. Sholto-Douglas, what does this word mean? What does this Surname mean? Sholto- Douglas. It means Behold the black man. Black knights once fought for the kings of Scotland, and the Danish people who are fraudulently represented in the history books as blond and pink skinned Nordics, had large numbers of black men in their ranks.”

In an age that we proudly call the information age, how can all these facts escape the people who once ruled the world without repose to money? How can we use the internet to keep feeding irrelevant information to our children, have we fallen that far down from our state of grace? To close this topic for now, let us see what else has been said about the Ngcamane Swazi:

 “Following Zwangendaba's death in 1848, succession disputes split the Ngoni people. Zwangendaba's following and the Maseko Ngoni eventually created seven substantial Ngoni kingdoms in Tanzania, Zambia and Malawi.”- Wikipedia.

According to Wikipedia these are some of the Maseko Nguni’s that can be found in Malawi and the Swazi borders:

• Maseko Ngoni of Dedza under Paramount Chief Kachindamoto and Kachere

• Maseko Ngoni of Ntcheu under Paramount Chief Ganya (Successor of Chief Gomani)
• Maseko Ngoni of Thyolo under Paramount Chief Vumbwe

In the Mfecane, the Nguni mixed with the peoples they defeated on their way north. They brought their own military organization and strategies with them and reached eastern Africa between Lakes Tanganyika and Nyasa (today's Lake Malawi).”

All this information is very good, but until I speak to the elders I shall hold my peace and be contented with cultivating my Ancient Egyptian inspired Initiation so that we the time is ripe, I and the rest of the Maseko’s I will to lead will bring justice to this part of the world. I say that I will myself to lead them because it is clear to me that it takes Spiritual, Political and Supernatural Will to take on established prejudices, lies and emerge victorious with the Truth. But I am not Superman, I am a divine man who knows where he is from and soon you will too.

Menzi Maseko ©

References

• Ngoni by Nwankwo T. Nwaezeigwe (The Heritage Library Of African Peoples)
• Mpezeni's Ngoni of Eastern Zambia, 1870–1920, Ph.D. dissertation by William Eugene Rau, 1974
• Bauer, Andreus. Street of Caravans.
• Iliffe, John. Modern History of Tanganjika.
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• Reader, John. Africa, a biography of the Continent.
• Tew, Mary. People of the Lake Nyasa Region