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Shona praise-poetryarticle 1974 • Fortune, G. (George) & Hodza, Aaron C.
Shona • Africa > Southern Africa
This discussion of praise poems sorts them into three categories: praises recited to members of particular clans; praises and celebrations of individual qualities in persons other than clansmen; and boasts in which the qualities of the speaker himsel...