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 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 ...
... 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 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 adopted the religion, though generally the culture adopted much of the dress worn by Muslims even if they did not convert. Most Muslim Nyamwezi are Sunni of the Shafi'i madhhab. The Nyamwezi developed a system of local leaders ...
... 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 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 , 18 . -fuka , Shambala , 18 . -fuka , Swahili , 18 . -fukia , Swahili , 18 . -fukila , Nyamwezi , 18 . -fuko , Luganda , 18 . -fukuka , Nyamwezi , 18 . fula , Malinke , 29 . fulama , Bambara , 29 . -fulama , Nyamwezi , 29 ...
... 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 ...