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GLOSSARY aldeia communal village created by Frelimo in the late 19705 bralfo laborer (lit., "arm") chibaro compulsory labor and/or taxation chikoroka forced labor under Frelimo and Renamo colonato a Portuguese agricultural settlement dzimbahwe central, capital part of a chiefdom huku gift made by a migrant to a headman in course ofland allocation (lit. "chicken") kudira (or -dira) ceremony of pouring beer on the ground to propitiate ancestral spirits and ask them for rain and soil fertility kukhonza (or -khonza) to pledge oneselfas subordinate, variously conceived maguta (singular: guta) lineage-based residual compounds mfecane a series of migrations and violent occupations by Nguni speakers throughout southeastern Africa beginning in the 1820S muhlafa (plural; va-) migrant new to an area mukhonzwa,(plural: va-) someone who has performed kukhonza rnutenga-tore exchange marriage palmatoria beating on the palms ofthe hands pamuterno according to law and custom prazo estate in the Zambezi Valley granted by the Portuguese crown in the seventeenth century sabhuku (plural: rna-) headman sadunhu (plural: ma-) headman trekboer Afrikaans-speaking migrating farmer varanda (singular: muranda) client, indentured servant, or slave 201 ...