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Alice Werner (26 June 1859 - 9 June 1935) was a miscellaneous writer, poet and teacher of the Bantu language. She lived in New Zealand, Mexico, America and throughout Europe.The Bantu people are the 300-600 ethnically and linguistically related ethnic groups in Africa who speak Bantu languages. They today inhabit a geographical area in Sub-Equatorial Africa (also sometimes referred to as Bantu Africa) stretching east and southward from Central Africa to the African Great Lakes and Southern Africa. Bantu is itself a major branch of the Niger-Congo language family spoken by most populations in Sub-Saharan Africa.
First published in 1919, this volume provides a detailed linguistic breakdown of the Bantu language family of Central and Southern Africa. Its author held in-situ expertise in Nanja, Swahili, Zulu, Giryama and Pokomo. A professor of Swahili and Bantu languages, she was the author of several books on Bantu languages and African peoples. The volume aims to depict the broad principles underlying the structure of the Bantu language family and attempts a classification of those languages. Contemporaneous with the colonization of Tanzania, many of the areas to which this volume was relevant were under British control at the time of publication.
As one volume in the early 20th century series entitled The Native Races of the British Empire, this discussion of the peoples of the British Central Africa Protectorate was an early study of religion and magic, rituals, and tribal organization of the peoples living in and around the basin of Lake Nyassa and its outlet, the Shire.
First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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