... Gbudwe's captains of companies of warriors. This is about how men married boys when Gbudwe was lord of his domains. In those days, if a man had relations with the wife of another the husband killed him or he cut off his hands and his ...
... Gbudwe's kingdom inad- vertently , but perhaps inevitably , presented a picture of a more static , settled , routinized polity than emerged from the historical evidence : it is an idealized version of how a kingdom should be . Gbudwe ...
... Gbudwe's father , the King , confirmed Gbudwe's mother to be a witch ( Evans - Pritchard 1971 : 287 ) . When Gbudwe was a boy living at the court of his father Bazingbi , one of Bazingbi's children died of sickness . The poison ...
... Gbudwe in 1899 with the aim of enhancing his prestige . Although Renzi had superior firepower , he was not able to score a victory over Gbudwe's forces . Gbudwe and his warriors stood firm along the Yubo River , and after several days ...
... Gbudwe's rule who did not speak of it with nostalgia and as better than the foreign administration which took its place . Before and after Gbudwe's death is not to them just a difference in time before and after an event . It is a deep ...
... Gbudwe's eldest surviving son at the time of his death , they seem to have been brought before what European tribunals existed , for Gbudwe's sons encouraged them no more than their father had done . Ongosi told me that a particular ...
... Gbudwe in August 1904. They were part of the expedition commanded by the Belgian officer Leon Colin. The Azande, under Gbudwe, fought the battle of Mayawa with determination and fierceness. This battle was Gbudwe's last major military ...
... Gbudwe was already legendary by the mid - 1870s . " His eyes sparkled like stars , " an awestruck Zande nobleman recalled many years later . " When he looked at a man in anger they were terrible . " From Gbudwe's imposing inner court ...
... in groups . ' It may now have come to have this meaning , but when I was in Zandeland the word was the name of King Gbudwe's leading company of warriors . ngba ndue gbe . akumba ta re a ta ki 219 SOME ZANDE TEXTS - PART 4.
... Gbudwe's oracle . He was ' a Baka tribesman and very beautiful , black - skinned with fine white teeth ' , except for two incisors which had been extracted after the custom of the Bakas . There was reputedly ' no single person as ...