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Kafwe Twa

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tube with blankets, blocking out light as the adjacent vegetation does and enabling them to see the fish in the river clearly. They then spear the fish with bident and trident spears up to 6 m long, and occasionally longer, depending on the depth of the water. In the 1950s there were several hundred of these platforms raised in the Twa fishing grounds, and catches were reported to be over 100 kg per person per day when the fish were running.
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The Kafue Twa have a dark-hut method of fishing unique in Africa. The sides of the river are covered with a thick mat of vegetation. The Twa raise a small reed platform about 3  square at the margin of the vegetation, with a tube in the center down to the water. They cover themselves and the
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This may once have been true of the entire country, but due to the commercial market for fish, immigrant fishermen now work the north and east of Zambia.
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is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them.
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Lehmann, D. 1977. "The Twa: People of the Kafue Flats". In Williams & Howard (eds.)
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Smardon, R. 2009. "The Kafue Flats in Zambia, Africa: A Lost Floodplain?", in
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Development and Ecology in the Lower Kafue Basin in the Nineteen Seventies
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Narrow Bantu languages by Guthrie classification zone templates
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The material culture of the Ambo of Northern Rhodesia
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Index

Kafue Twa
Twa
Kafue Flats
Zambia
fishing
hunter-gatherer
castes
patron-client relationship
Bantu peoples
Southern Province
Tonga
Ila
ecotone
Zambia portal
Twa peoples
Classification of Pygmy languages
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Ethnic groups in Zambia
Bemba
Bwile
Chewa
Chokwe
Ishindi-Lunda
Kafwe Twa
Kanongesha-Lunda
Kunda
Lamba
Lambya

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