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Nyatshinovhea: Tshi no vhea mudi ndi khana mapfufha a fhaladza mudi (Nyatshinovhela: The glue that holds a family together is the chest, talking with outsiders only breeds incoherence)
ANC Today 2007
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Tshi military camp where Mobutu usually stays, a route that crosses districts fiercely loyal to the opposition.
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If each one of the inhabitants of Yung-Tshi had followed this precept, instead of declaring that the hill never received the sun or that shade never fell upon it, they would each one have thought for himself.
Common Sense, How to Exercise It Mme. Blanchard Yoritomo-Tashi
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In the Tshi language of Western Africa a finger is known as _ensah-tsia-abbah_, "little child of the hand," and in some other tongues of savage or barbaric peoples "fingers" are simply
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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In the figurative language of ancient records the patriarchs are promised descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven, and in the Tshi language of Western Africa, the stars are termed
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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This occurs every year at the same time, and it is not well to cultivate trees on the height of Yung-Tshi, for the sun, being too hot, dries them up before the time when the foliage ought to fall. '
Common Sense, How to Exercise It Mme. Blanchard Yoritomo-Tashi
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Among the Tshi-speaking peoples of the Gold Coast the wives of men who are away with the army paint themselves white, and adorn their persons with beads and charms.
Chapter 3. Sympathetic Magic. § 2. Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic 1922
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Among the Tshi-speaking peoples of the Gold Coast the wives of men who are away with the army paint themselves white, and adorn their persons with beads and charms.
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A.B. Ellis has repudiated his theory of borrowing a god in the case of the Tshi-speaking races.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Among the writings of travelers and sojourners particularly notable are Mary Kingsley's _Travels in West Africa_ as a vivid picture of coast life, and her _West African Studies_ for its elaborate and convincing discussion of fetish, and the works of Sir A.B. Ellis on the Tshi -, Ewe - and Yoruba-speaking peoples for their analyses of institutions along the
American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905
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