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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | The History of Karagwe |
Authors: | Ford, J. Hall, R. De Z. |
Year: | 1947 |
Periodical: | Tanganyika Notes and Records |
Volume: | 24 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 3-27 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Tanzania |
Subjects: | history History and Exploration |
Abstract: | Two ethnologically separate tribes, the Banyambo (Bantu agriculturists) and the Bahima (or Batussi) a pastoral Half-Hamite people, refraining from intermarriage with the Bantu whom they conquered compose the population of Karagwe. The Bahima, thus remaining a distinct physical type, adopted however their subjects' language, and so, linguistically, are grouped as Bantu. Contrary to the social structure, typical for Hima rule, in Karagwe the Bahima had no power of their own over the Banyambo. The present study is a contribution to Karagwe history, based on local information and accounts of early British and German explorers. Its three sections deal with the arrival of the Bahima and their chiefs (Bahinda), cerca 1580 to 1855; the Bahinda, from the coming of the Europeans; the decline of Karagwe. Appendices; Bibliography.; map. |