Word: nyamwesi
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...Africa is the biography of Kalola, head of the once-powerful Snake Guild of the Nyamwesi tribe in British Tanganyika. Based on Kalola's story as he told it to Ethnologist Carnochan, it is written in a fictional narrative that robs it of authority, covers the period from Kalola's birth in 1856 to his death in 1933. Illustrated with photographs of charms and initiations, it is most interesting in its account of intertribal politics and in its account of Kalola's fighting in the war with German conquerors...
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