Kuanhama RebellionAngola / Namibia · 1902–1904“A thread from the great cord of two hundred and fifty. Hold it while I speak.”The Kwanyama kings of the Ovambo floodplain ruled cattle country that two empires' maps had cut in half without consulting a single herd. When Portugal pressed in from the north with forts and levies, the Kwanyama answered as a state defending itself, not a tribe misbehaving — and for a time, answered successfully.