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  • During his first "baraza" -- any meeting in Africa is a baraza -- a messenger came dashing into the circle to tell him that a government headman had been murdered many miles away on the Abyssinian frontier.

    What Is To Become of the British Protectorates? 1944

  • Kura ya maoni ilikuwa imepangwa kupigwa siku hiyo, kura hiyo ilikuwa inapingwa na mahakama ya juu, na majeshi ya nchi pamoja na baraza la wawakilishi.

    Global Voices in English » Honduras: Political Crisis Over Controversial Referendum 2009

  • Sometimes we do door-to-door and sometimes we make a baraza community gathering.

    In Kenya, a Community Fights Against Malaria 2011

  • Sometimes we do door-to-door and sometimes we make a baraza community gathering.

    In Kenya, a Community Fights Against Malaria 2011

  • Men and children would be outside on the covered baraza, the cement bench that ran along the front of the house.

    Crazy Like Us Ethan Watters 2010

  • Outreach efforts by peer educators were carried out through one-on-one contacts and through baraza s group meetings with CSWs.

    Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003

  • Outreach efforts by peer educators were carried out through one-on-one contacts and through baraza s group meetings with CSWs.

    Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003

  • "My government want to see all Zanzibaris living in peace and harmony, and in so doing, will have more time to contribute to the welfare and the economy of the nation," said Karume, who was addressing an Idd baraza for the first time since becoming president earlier last month.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • Karume told another Eid baraza in Zanzibar on Thursday that the

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • His residence was as well kept as Mtesa's uncle's; but instead of a baraza fronting his house, he had a small enclosure, with three small huts in it, kept apart for devotional purposes, or to propitiate the evil spirits -- in short, according to the notions of the place, a church.

    The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845

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