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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | The Wambugu of Usumbara: (With Notes on Kimbugu) |
Author: | Green, Edward C. |
Year: | 1963 |
Periodical: | Tanganyika Notes and Records |
Volume: | 61 |
Period: | September |
Pages: | 175-189 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Tanzania |
Subjects: | Mbugu Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
Abstract: | The Wambugu (referring to themselves as VA-MA'A, sing. MA'A or MU-MA'A) a small pastoral tribe numbering some 12,000 men, women and children, live in the higher and consequently colder regions of the Usambaras. They are a reserved and uncom-comunicative people regarding their past history and present customs. The first part of this paper which deals with these two subjects is therefor necessarily brief. They keep themselves apart from the indigeneous Wasambaa, settling their own differences among themselves and rarely appealing to the local sub-chief or the Paramount Chief of the Wasambaa against the judgements of their own courts. They are physically Hamitic with exception if their extremely long and protuberant front teeth. Their language with non-Bantu roots and Bantu affixes is slowly becoming bantuized. The article comprises a list of 166 words compared in MBUGU, SHAMBALA, PARE (CASU), IRAQW, MASAI. Bibliography. |