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ChewaBantu-speaking people of eastern Zambia, northwestern Zimbabwe, and Malawi. They practice shifting (slash-and-burn) agriculture and they hunt and fish. Slavery was once universal among the Chewa. Descent, inheritance, and succession are matrilineal and polygyny is general. Chewa settlements are governed by a hereditary headman and a council of elders. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | Mutharika, who comes from the minority Lomwe tribe, won the May 19 poll by 66 percent, with his main opponent Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader John Temba, who comes from the country's biggest tribe, the Chewa, trailing at 31 percent. An illustration of this: after colonialism, the Maasai found themselves in Kenya and Tanzania; the Luo found themselves in Uganda, Kenya and Sudan; the Chewa found themselves in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. The Chewa peasantry of Malawi, for example, continue to construct an imagery of the body that is mapped onto the way they experience their landscape. |
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