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 also hired professional Tutsi herdsmen to care for their cattle. By 1825, the Nyamwezi were in contact with slave and ivory traders from India and Arab countries. The Indians and Arabs persuaded the Nyamwezi to buy weapons ...
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... Nyamwezi. Nyamwezi or Wanyamwezi is a Swahili term meaning “People of the Moon” and refers to a large population of Bantu people in western Tanzania. Their homeland is called Unyamwezi, which are the provinces of Tabora and Shinyunga ...
... Nyamwezi is non - cyclic , why are the alveolar consonants " restored " with velars in the box in ( 13c ) ? I would like to suggest that palatalization in Nyamwezi is in fact cyclic . For clarity , a full morphology - phonology ...
... 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 Trade ' ; A. Roberts , ' The Nyamwezi ' ; Deutsch , ' Notes on the Rise of Slavery ' ; Rockel , Carriers of Culture ; Greiner , Human Porterage . 30. Iliffe , Africans , 106 , 110 . 31. Burton , Lake Regions , 235 . 32. As ...
... Nyamwezi context , to his doctoral thesis in 1990 on thought and reality in the Sukuma - Nyamwezi universe , to subse- quent publications in the 1990s . See chapter 8 for a discussion of this latter work . 4. I was told a similar ...
... ( Nyamwezi ) 377 Mfumba ( Sambaa ) 77 Mfumbati ( Bena ) 275 Mfumbeli ( Nyamwezi ) 77 Mfumbi ( Sangu , Hehe ) 197 Mfumbwe ( Hehe ) 77 Mfundua ( Fipa ) 266 Mfundumbuga ( Nyamwezi ) 266 Mfune - mzitu ( Shambaa ) 287 Mfuru ( Zaramo , Luguru ...