Chieftains
Chieftainship in Chagga appears to be very specific with no influence from early ancestors according to Western observations done in the 19th century. In the nearby south Pare Mountains, the old clan chiefship of the Mashariki continued to be the ritual center of life among the early Asu and remained so, in fact, down through the nineteenth century. But among the ancestral Chagga of North Pare and among their descendants who settled around Mount Kilimanajro, a new kind of chiefship, Mangi, probably originally meaning "the arranger, planner" came into being not much before 1000 AD.
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