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The Practice of ‘Uvaisi’ among the Ovimbundu.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2012

Paulino Gonga Liahuka
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Africa , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , October 1939 , pp. 489 - 491
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Copyright © International African Institute 1939

References

1 An elliptical statement of a sort common to Umbundu speech. It indicates that the girl is a respectable person, belonging to a respectable family, entering into a respectable relationship with another of the same category, and therefore they are expected to act the part.