Tambo

Tambo is Melanesian for taboo, and is first cousin to that Polynesian word.

MAUKI 2010

The warmth implicit in Tambo's use of the familiar Steve is offset by Adelaide Tambo when, in the introduction to his speech, she describes Steve Biko as "one talented leader" (emphasis added).

'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

It is, in Tambo's words, "aberration and a freak incident" and, simultaneously, "the concrete expression" of a brutally violent state that had drawn everything and everyone under its spell.

'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

Tambo is Melanesian for taboo, and is first cousin to that

Mauki 1911

Note 201: Oliver Tambo, interview by Carlos Cordosa, Mozambique Information Agency, July 1983, reprinted as "Our Bases Are inside South Africa," in Tambo, Preparing for Power, 166. back

'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

I know all this because she is taking part in what appears to be a growing family tradition see A town called Tambo of keeping a travel blog.

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Mbeki called Tambo a liberator and a lodestar in the struggle against apartheid, and said the renaming had a wider significance despite some opposition to it.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

These being finished, he went down the valley of Yucay to a place which is now called Tambo, eight leagues from Cuzco, where he erected some magnificent buildings.

History of the Incas Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

This baptism took place in a village near to Dulac, called Tambo, whither he had gone to visit and console its people.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 13 of 55 1604-1605 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Emma Helen Blair 1884