Mangi (Chief) Meli (or Mangi Meli Kiusa bin Rindi Makindara) (died 1900) was a leader of the Chaga in the late 1890s. He was hanged by the German colonial government in March 1900.Meli is one of the heroes of the former Tanganyika colony, having been prominent in the fight against colonial encroachment on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. After his capture, Meli was convicted of rebellion and was hanged at a public execution as his people watched. Following his death, the German colonial administration ordered his head to be removed, and it is believed to have been sent to Berlin to be used in phrenological studies. It was then apparently stored in a museum.
Mangi Meli chief's officer was Ndaskoi Msehiye Massamu, who led the Chaga forces that captured livestock in the Pare and Taveta areas of what is now Kenya. Ndaskoi lived in in Masamunyi, where he raised his family, while others of his relatives moved to Msaranga, on the lower side of Old Moshi.
Eventually captured by the Imperial German forces, Mangi Meli was publicly executed by hanging in March 1900 near today's Kolila High School in Kisamo Village. Efforts are currently being made to try to recover his skull and return it for proper burial in Tanzania.