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The
Twa
of the
Lukanga Swamp
of
Zambia
are one of several
fishing
and
hunter-gatherer
castes
living in a patron?client relationship with farming
Bantu peoples
across central and southern Africa. The Lukanga Twa live primarily among the
Lenje
, and speak the
Lenje language
.
In
Southern Province
, where swampy terrain means that large-scale crops cannot be planted near the main rivers, only the Twa fish. They exchanged their catch for agricultural produce from their patrons. Up to the 1920s the Twa built their huts on the marshes, but they were moved to higher ground for ease of taxation. By the 1970s many of the Twa identified as Lenje, and consequently abandoned fishing, as the Lenje have a strong cultural aversion to that activity. They have been replaced by immigrants to the region, primarily
Luvale
and
Malawians
.
References
[
edit
]
- Muntemba, M. 1977. "Thwarted Development". In Palmer & Parsons (eds)
The Roots of rural poverty in central and southern Africa,
Volume 1
See also
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