death_place death_date birth_place birth_date known_for article_title name death_cause
near dama , sierra leone 1888 1850 manjoro leone -rrb- -lrb- in present day kailahun district , sierra c. 1850 war chief in 19th century sierra leone ndawa
 ndawa died in battle
ndawa

ndawa or dawa -lrb- c. 1850 -- 1888 -rrb- was an important war chief in the mendeland region , in present-day sierra leone , in the 19th century .
ndawa was born into slavery and was traded multiple times until the chief of tikonko , makavorary , began training ndawa as a warrior .
ndawa gradually became a powerful war chief who derived his authority largely from his ability to plunder .
he was most successful when he became aligned with the war chief kai londo .
when kai londo and ndawa disagreed about the division of plunder from their wars , it started the kpove war which involved ndawa attacking multiple communities in the region for much of the 1880s .
in 1887 , ndawa and makavorary attacked many british allies and the british organised a force to attack ndawa .
in a battle in 1888 , ndawa was killed after his achilles tendon was cut .
