Banza

Some translate the word "Banza" by city, unaware that Central African people do not build cities.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

There is such egocentricity … Each has such pride, each believes that without him, nothing can be achieved, said analyst Banza Mukalay Nsungu.

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There is such egocentricity … Each has such pride, each believes that without him, nothing can be achieved, said analyst Banza Mukalay Nsungu.

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The Reverend Dr. Simão Chamango, president of the Synod Council of the Igreja Presbiteriana de Moçambique, played perhaps the most vital part of all in arranging, with Antioka pastor Carlos Banza, for me to occupy one of the abandoned infirmary huts on the Antioka church property, in Facazisse locality, for the duration of my stay in Magude.

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Some translate the word “Banza” by city, unaware that Central African people do not build cities.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Gidi Mavunga, who told me that the Congo Expedition visited their Banza when his mother was a child, can hardly be forty-five, as his eldest son shows, and yet he looks sixty.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

After a total of two hours and a quarter we reached Banza Chisalla: it is a “small country,” in African parlance, a succursal of Boma proper, the Banza on the hills beyond the reedy, grassy plain.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

The head linguister, who, like “Persian interpreters” to commanders in chief of India during my clay, could not speak a word of any language but his own, after clapping hands, congratulated us in the name of the great king Nekulu; he lives, it appears, in a Banza at some distance to the north or north-east, out of sight of the river, and he cannot be visited without great outlay of gunpowder and strong waters.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Banza Vivi, our first destination, perching high on the farther side of the blue depression, bore due north.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

The Banza was beautifully situated on a dwarf platform, catching the full force of the sea-breeze, and commanding to the north-west

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003