What is "inyanga"

Usage examples of "inyanga".

On the visa-screen Andas saw the mottled shape of what the tape declared to be Inyanga, though he could not recognize any feature.

Artus lifted Inyanga from the packs and placed him gently on the ground.

You needed your rest, and I thought it best for Inyanga to watch over you.

With methodical care, Inyanga gathered driftwood and spread it in the sun to dry.

The wide street was quickly filling with people, dark-skinned like Ibn and Inyanga back at Port Castigliar.

Here then is a description of the building of those terraced gardens which cover the Inyanga mountains to this day.

This uneasiness becomes greater as one moves southward from Ethiopia and meets the terraced ruins of Kenya and Tanganyika and Rhodesia, the walls and towers of Zimbabwe, the dwellings of Niekerk and Inyanga, and the golden burials of Mapungubwe.

There are very many such conduits in the Inyanga region, and they often run for several miles.

These people of Inyanga had also had the custom--like those of Engaruka on the present Tanganyika-Kenya border--of building their huts or houses upon stone platforms banked against the hillside, yet with peculiarities of their own.

From foundations laid by their humbler predecessors of Ziwa 1 and 2, these Inyanga builders had contrived an important growth of material technique.

What is certain is that Niekerk and Inyanga, like Zimbabwe and Khami and their like, mark a high point of indigenous growth in the mastery of nature, and the maturing of society, that may take its place alongside other medieval and post-medieval achievements in continental Africa.

The miles of careful terracing and the hilltop forts and store-pits and stone dwellings of Niekerk and Inyanga were made while Mohammed Askia and his successors ruled the Western Sudan.

Emerging under different suns, whether in the pleasant uplands of Kenya or Uganda, the steep gorges of Inyanga, or the rolling plains of Rhodesia, and growing over many centuries of pioneering migration and settlement, mingling with more primitive peoples, solving a whole wide range of contrasting problems, these early civilizations asserted once again a dominant African theme of unity in diversity, continuity in isolation.

The elaborate ruins of Dhlo Dhlo and Khami, of Niekerk and Inyanga and Penhalonga, even the last levels of Mapungubwe, all belong to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: while the Mambo line of Ba-Rozwi rulers which had established itself at Great Zimbabwe in the first years of the seventeenth century would continue into the first decades of the nineteenth.

Except for one or two, these were swept away and utterly extinguished by the same barbarian invasions that overwhelmed the stone-built citadels of Khami and of Dhlo Dhlo and the hilltop forts of Inyanga and Penhalonga.