Basuto

The Basuto is a splendid fellow-with a desperately keen appreciation of his personal freedom under the Colonial Office Administration.

The Empire in Africa and the Middle East 1946

Bamakakana, Matlapatlapa, etc. The Bakoni farther north than the Basuto are the Batlou, Baperi,

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

No sooner were the Makololo, then called Basuto, safely over, than they were confronted by the whole Batoka nation; and to this day the Makololo point with pride to the spot on the Lekone, near to which they were encamped, where Sebetuane, with a mere handful of warriors in comparison to the vast horde that surrounded him, stood waiting the onslaught, the warriors in one small body, the women and children guarding the cattle behind them.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

No sooner were the Makololo, then called Basuto, safely over, than they were confronted by the whole Batoka nation; and to this day the Makololo point with pride to the spot on the Lekone, near to which they were encamped, where Sebetuane, with a mere handful of warriors in comparison to the vast horde that surrounded him, stood waiting the onslaught, the warriors in one small body, the women and children guarding the cattle behind them.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 David Livingstone 1843

English it is more convenient to apply "Basuto" to all three.] [Footnote 68: Gungunhana however had a sort of council of chiefs and confidential advisers which he called together at intervals, and which bore some resemblance to the Homeric Boule and to the earliest form of our own Curia Regis.]

Impressions of South Africa James Bryce Bryce 1880

Of two Africans riding up to the farmhouse on Basuto ponies to see his grandfather, their cloaks brilliant splashes of color against the snow.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

Of two Africans riding up to the farmhouse on Basuto ponies to see his grandfather, their cloaks brilliant splashes of color against the snow.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

Now, in an effort to call more attention to the pandemic in Lesotho, they formed a new charity this week, Sentabali (ph), a local Basuto (ph), meaning "forget me not."

CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2006 2006

Surely, when Charlotte Maxeke said more than a century ago - "I left (to study in the United States) a Basuto girl, and returned an African girl for the whole of Africa" - she did not intend that this African girl for the whole of Africa should come back to a country and continent that continued to perpetrate violence against women and children!

ANC Today 2005

Speaking at the 1901 Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, in a statement pregnant with meaning, Charlotte Maxeke said, "I left (to study in the United States) a Basuto girl, and returned an African girl for the whole of Africa."

ANC Today 2005