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The kings and chiefs hold it their duty to entertain the outward bound; but when cloth, beads, and rum have been exhausted, the returning wanderer sits under a tree instead of entering the banza, and it is only an exceptional householder who will send him a few eggs or plantains.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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I would begin with the banjo as an African instrument, called banza in the French colonies of West Africa and banjer in the American South, where in some backwaters you could still hear it called that.
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I would begin with the banjo as an African instrument, called banza in the French colonies of West Africa and banjer in the American South, where in some backwaters you could still hear it called that.
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World Food Program airplane on Saturday in the northern Angolan town of M'banza-Congo and then searched it.
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M'banza-Congo, a day after Savimbi vowed to "strike where it hurt most" and leave the government without oil.
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Soyo and M'banza-Congo, both cities some 300 kilometers (180 miles) north of Luanda.
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Zaire province as government troops fought to hold the key cities of Soyo and M'banza-Congo, both some 300 kilometers (180 miles) north of Luanda.
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Tuckey's Embomma was an inland banza or town, and the site of the factories was called Market Point; the Expedition map and the hydrographic chart term it Loombee, the latter being properly the name of a large quitanda (market) lying two miles to the north-west.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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The kings and chiefs hold it their duty to entertain the outward bound; but when cloth, beads, and rum have been exhausted, the returning wanderer sits under a tree instead of entering the banza, and it is only an exceptional householder who will send him a few eggs or plantains.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Dans ce dernier sens le mot banza veut dire palais du chef.”
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Pasta made from garbanzo beans (chickpeas) instead of wheat. Banza, shorthand for garbanzo pasta, has double the protein and four times the fiber of traditional pasta, and far fewer carbs; it’s also gluten-free.
February 21, 2016