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The erection of such shrines represents a practice found widely in the Bantu-speaking world. 22 And the dancing and drumming he mentioned would have been honorific acts of communication with associated spirits.
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On the flipside of this was the understanding that proper ancestor veneration resulted in desired outcomes, a conceptualization which highlights the reason for the emphasis on placating ancestors that prevails widely in the Bantu-speaking world. 20
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Though she makes no explicit reference to their association with ill-doing, she implies it in her description of their traveling about after dark, which is more widely the province of witches in Bantu-speaking communities.
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The verb still occurs widely in the Northeast-Coastal Culture Zone and in far-flung Bantu-speaking communities.
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Like its equally persistent counterpart among many East-Central-African Bantu-speaking societies, the * mwali period was framed by formal ceremonial observances, the most prominent feature of which included a period of quiet seclusion that ended with elaborate emergence celebrations.
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As in many Bantu-speaking societies, there were not heavily gendered distinctions made among young children.
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It is worth mentioning here that across the Bantu-speaking world, the * - gang - stem attests widely in a myriad of medicinal senses that range from types of medicinal charms that either were medicine themselves and/or contained medicine within them, to roots (from which medicine is commonly derived), to types of toxins usable in witchcraft.
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The ancestors in Bantu-speaking areas were also imagined as powerful forces.
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Such colors and various implements that are used to symbolize them occur widely in Africa, and even beyond the Bantu-speaking areas.
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In the overall course of history, Bantu-speaking societies in many regions were, for a long time, insistent that as male bodies matured, they required guidance.
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