This book is based largely on these later visits and traces the nature of developments since his earlier work and publications on the people.
... Nyamwezi live and work outside their homeland, where they are engaged in various professions. Nevertheless, for the majority, growing crops and raising animals is their livelihood. The territory of the Nyamwezi is undulating country ...
... Nyamwezi live outside of Unyamwezi, but for those Nyamwezi who inhabit their people's homeland, agriculture and animal husbandry are the main forms of employment. Nyamwezi society is open and welcoming to outsiders, most likely ...
... Nyamwezi began to settle in their present location in the 16th century . It has been noted that the region was not inviting for most Bantu farmers given the conditions of swamp , poor soils , drought , and sleeping sickness . The Nyamwezi ...
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Nomenclature -- Location -- Territorial Groupings -- Demography -- The Main Tribes, and The Population Of Their Tribal Areas In 1957 -- ...
... Nyamwezi people became celebrated as porters employed by the traders on this route . Almost certainly , however , they were not originally known as Nyamwezi , but as Nyanyembe , or by the name of whatever other chiefdom they came from ...
... Nyamwezi style . Dancer ( above left ) Music and dancing are major Nyamwezi art forms . This man is wearing a traditional dancer's outfit . Long - familiar songs are sung at dances and weddings but new songs are always being composed ...
... Nyamwezi traders who conquered the Luba state took with them the buswezi cult , while other Nyamwezi spread their societies of diviners , snake - experts , and the like throughout the western plateau . ' As cultures mingled , so ...
... Nyamwezi were organized into small, independent villages headed by a hereditary chief known as an ntemi. In the centuries after 1000 C.E., the ntemi chieftaincies of the Nyamwezi continued to spread and differentiate across the ...
... Nyamwezi became buyers rather than sellers of slaves . Besides providing the bulk of the carriers for Arab and Swahili caravans , the Nyamwezi also fitted out their own . Nyamwezi rulers , who received great supplies of ivory by gift ...