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Title:The Traditional Mbukushu Political Structure
Author:Larson, Thomas J.ISNI
Year:1980
Periodical:South African Journal of Ethnology
Volume:3
Issue:1
Pages:1-7
Language:English
Geographic term:Botswana
Subjects:rainmaking
Mbukushu
traditional polities
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Abstract:This paper considers how the Mbukushu rainmaking chieftainship is a political adaptation to their riverine environment. Thought the Mbukushu are only a small and politically weak tribe, they have maintained their tribal traditions and identity. Even while being ruled by powerful peoples such as the Barotse and Tawana, they were able to maintain relative independence through isolation and the control of the rain-medicine by the rainmaking chiefs of the Mbukushu. Ref., Afrikaans sum.
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