Manga Sewa (died 1884) was a Yalunka King of the Solimana who blew up a magazine and much of Falaba , the capital of Solimana , killing himself, his family and other leaders, rather than let it fall to Samori Toure 's army.
10-701: [REDACTED] Look up sewa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sewa or SEWA may refer to: Sêwa, a feminine name in Kurdish language taken from Sêw which means apple . Sêwa or Sewu, Tibet , a village in Tibet Self-Employed Women's Association of India , a trade union in India Sewa , volunteer work offered to God (in Indian religions) Sewa (film) ,
20-503: A 1942 Bollywood film Sewa (moth) , a moth genus Sewa River , a river in Sierra Leone SEWA (Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority) People with the surname [ edit ] Manga Sewa (died 1884), Yalunka chief from Sierra Leone Ssewa Ssewa (born 1987), Ugandan musician See also [ edit ] Seva (disambiguation) Sewak (disambiguation) Sevak (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
30-580: A number of wives and dozens of children. Manga Sewa became paramount chief of Solimana, a state in Northern Province. He was from one of the ruling families of the chieftaincy and would have been chief for life. In the Beyla region of Guinea, Samori Toure (c.1830-1900), of the Touré clan, had expanded his influence; by 1878 he proclaimed himself faama (military leader) of his own Wassoulou Empire. In 1884 he took
40-517: A secret mission to obtain aid from the Kuranko people , but Dugu was captured and executed on a nearby hill in full view of his country-men. Manga Sewa called his elders, his wives, and the community into the powder magazine. He plunged a flaming torch into the great barrels of gunpowder. An enormous explosion shook the town, and the Mandinka breached the walls and charged inside. Toure opened contacts with
50-549: A trade union in India Sewa , volunteer work offered to God (in Indian religions) Sewa (film) , a 1942 Bollywood film Sewa (moth) , a moth genus Sewa River , a river in Sierra Leone SEWA (Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority) People with the surname [ edit ] Manga Sewa (died 1884), Yalunka chief from Sierra Leone Ssewa Ssewa (born 1987), Ugandan musician See also [ edit ] Seva (disambiguation) Sewak (disambiguation) Sevak (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
60-437: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages sewa [REDACTED] Look up sewa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sewa or SEWA may refer to: Sêwa, a feminine name in Kurdish language taken from Sêw which means apple . Sêwa or Sewu, Tibet , a village in Tibet Self-Employed Women's Association of India ,
70-535: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Manga Sewa Manga Sewa was born in Falaba , Solimana chiefdom, in the Northern Province of British Sierra Leone to Yalunka parents. His father was a Yalunka paramount chief of Solimana, a prosperous chieftaincy. Its capital, Falaba, was on the rich trading routes leading to the coast. Manga Sewa's father had
80-459: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Sewa . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sewa&oldid=1216797425 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
90-459: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Sewa . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sewa&oldid=1216797425 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
100-522: The title of Almany, commander of believers. In February of that year, he swept into north-east Sierra Leone, with his Mandinka army, bent on conquest. N'fa Ali , Toure's general, destroyed many villages in the Yalunka Kingdom and ultimately laid siege to the capital, Falaba. The Yalunka held out for five months and, in the end, were reduced to eating rats and the boiled leather of their sandals and mats. Sewa finally sent his younger brother, Dugu, on
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