Xwalile
Great wife of Lobengula, king of the Ndebele people in present-day Zimbabwe
About Xwalile
Xwalile was at one time the great wife of Lobengula, king of the Ndebele people in present-day Zimbabwe. The dates of her birth and death are unknown, but she is known to have lived at least from the 1870s to the 1890s.
Daughter of Mzila, king of the Gaza people, Xwalile married Lobengula in 1879; seven other Gaza royal women married him in the same ceremony, which was designed as an exchange of royal wives.
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great wife of Lobengula, king of the Ndebele people in present-day Zimbabwe
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