What is "manyatta"

Usage examples of "manyatta".

It was then we saw our first manyatta, a complete village of pigmy huts like up-ended wicker baskets.

We passed the thorn skeleton of an old manyatta and I wondered what van Delden was up to and whether Mukunga would get those elephants past the culling area in time.

Below us was the airstrip, the frayed wind-sock still hanging from its pole, limp in the breathless air, and the green line of a ditch carrying a trickle of oasis water out towards the deserted village, and beyond the manyatta two tiny figures were hurrying towards the flat burnished circle of the port.

We ground our way through the empty stream bed, past the twin hillocks that formed a natural gateway, and then we were out in the open with the raised line of the doum palms away to our left, and all ahead the land stretching flat like a salt pan to the El Molo manyatta and the port.

He spent half an hour telling us myths about how his people used to live in huts called manyattas, and how their rite of passage to manhood was to kill a lion with a spear.

But I had no build-up shots of cattle dead around the waterholes, of the Samburu abandoning their manyattas and the scene in isolation would make no sense.