Iinenge
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Iinenge | |
|---|---|
Settlement | |
| Country |  Namibia |
| Region | Oshikoto Region |
| Traditional area | Ondonga |
| Time zone | UTC+2 |
Iinenge is a historic locality in the Ondonga kingdom of northern Namibia. It was the palace of king Nembungu lyAmutundu (also Nembungu lyaAmutundu), who ruled from about 1750 to about 1810 or 1820—one of the longest reigns on the Ondonga list, after Nangombe yaMvula at Oshamba.[1]
Nembungu
The Museums Association of Namibia describes Nembungu as a ritual leader and the last circumcised Ndonga king. He kept objects bound up with iidhila (taboos) and omisindilo (rites). After his death those objects were buried in separate graves (oompampa). A story current in later writing is that a stone fell from the sky in his time and became a source of “power stones” used in Ondonga and other Owambo kingdoms; versions of the tale differ.[1]
New Era has written that he sent Shimbilinga sha Ngwedha to serve the Oukwanyama.[2]
Martti Rautanen (“Nakambale”) recorded an ox-wagon journey from Olukonda east to Iinenge with the Swiss botanist Hans Schinz, looking for a sacred stone of Ondonga. A fragment later catalogued in the National Museum of Finland (object 5620) is linked to that episode in MAN’s Rautanen catalogue.
Nembungu’s nephew Nangolo dhaAmutenya followed him and kept court at Ondonga itself.
See also
- Oshamba
- Nangolo dhaAmutenya
- Olukonda
- Nakambale Museum
- Ondonga
- List of Ondonga kings
- Martti Rautanen
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Oombale Dhiihaka: A Bond That Cannot Be Broken (PDF). Museums Association of Namibia. 2019. ISBN 978-99916-902-6-1. Retrieved 2 September 2026. Search this book on
- ↑ "The evolution of the Ondonga royal clan". New Era. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2026.
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