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The Voice of Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2012

Alice Werner
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Under this heading specimens of African poetry will appear regularly in a European language, and as far as possible also in the original African language. The poems in this number have kindly been supplied by Professor A. Werner.

Type
Voice of Africa
Information
Africa , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , April 1928 , pp. 249 - 254
Copyright
Copyright © International African Institute 1928

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References

page 249 note 1 i.e. the chair of state, as distinguished from the stools, cut out of a single block, used by the tribes of the Interior—mere washenzi.

page 249 note 2 Literally ‘praise yourselves’.

page 249 note 3 Probably alluding to the ornamental markings of some snakes.