Identifier: womenofallnation01joyc (find matches)
Title: Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence;
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Thomas, Northcote Whitridge, 1868-
Subjects: Women
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) : Cassell and Company, limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Makololo — a Suto tribe who came from the south and conquered the Barotse about 1830 — to account for the existence of an institution new to them. For we find that women chiefs are not at all uncommon among the tribes north and east of the Barotse. Livingstone mentions several whom he saw, or heard of, in his travels. We may remember the Londa chieftainess Manenko, who, with her husband and suite, escorted him, when on his way from Linyanti to Loanda, to the town of her uncle Shinte. There was also Nyango, who seems to have been at one time lady paramount of the tribes on the Upper Shire; and the chief near Lake Mweru, who goes by the hereditary name of Kazembe, is also a woman. At Shintes village, Livingstone says: This was the first town I had ever seen females present in a public assembly. In the south the women are not permitted to enter the kotla, and even when invited to come to a religious service they would not enter until ordered to do so by the chief ; but here they expressed approbation by clapping
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BAROTSE Z^ iSt lateM. Cmllard: byperinissioit c/Chc Sftrftaryo/the Barotseland Mission. BASKET-MAKERS. SOUTH AND SOUTH-WEST AFRICA 305 their hands, and laughing, to different speakers; and Shinte frequently turned round and spoke to them. East of the Barotse, the Babemba and Bawisa tribes need not detain us at present. South of these, along the course of the Zambezi, come the Batonga (Batoka) Salkats), quarrelled with King Tshaka, and, flying for his life, founded a kingdom of his own in the north. Another detachment of Zulu left their country about the same time, and for a similar reason, under Zwangendaba, the same whom Zwide wished to attack, as already related, and was dissuaded by his mother. They crossed

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