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Chewa meaning
A member of an African people inhabiting central Malawi and adjoining areas of Zambia and Mozambique.
Synonyms of Chewa
Example sentences (11)
Symon and Kendall who are famous for their strong chewa rhythmic melodies that are equidistant between Gulewamkulu and Kazukuta dances.
These are senior Chewa Chiefs who are more superior than MCP.
Speaking through a representative Kalonga Gawa Undi encouraged the Chewa people to send boys and girls to school.
The head of state who arrived in Eastern Province on Sunday paid courtesy calls on Paramount Chief Mpezeni of the Ngoni and Kalonga Gawa Undi of the Chewa people.
An example from Chewa : the word "school", borrowed from English, and then transformed to fit the sound patterns of this language, is sukulu.
ChiChewa Intensive Course, (Chewa is similar to Nyanja) Lilongwe, Malawi, 1969.
Mwase's guns helped to defend the Chewa from the Ngoni and wild animals.
Some of those Yao he found in Nkhotakota were already Islamised and he opted to employ them rather than employing non Muslim Chewa.
Staging from rocky areas, the Ngoni impis would raid the Chewa (also called Achewa) and plunder food, oxen and women.
The Yao, upon migrating to Malawi in the 1800s, soon began buying slaves from the Chewa and Ngoni.
Trade was enhanced by the common language of Chewa which was spoken throughout the Maravi Empire.