Moshoeshoe biography definition
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Moshoeshoe
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1786?-1870
Independent
Lesotho
Moshoeshoe (also Moshesh and various other spellings) was the founder of the Kingdom of Lesotho.
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He was born at Menkhoaneng in what is now northern Lesotho, son of a village headman. His original name was Lepoqo. He was early influenced by the religious and political reformer Mohlomi. About 1820, Moshoeshoe migrated to set up his own village.
Moshoeshoe biography definition
By military and diplomatic skill he incorporated various groups, many of them displaced by Zulu conquest, and in 1824 consolidated the process by migration to Thaba Bosiu, which he made a well-nigh impregnable mountain fortress.
Having effectively formed a new nation, he had now to adjust to the encroaching white presence and for this purpose invited missionaries. Eugene Casalis and Thomas Arbousset of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society arrived in 1833, and Moshoeshoe offered them every f