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	Chewa Religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is believed by the Chewa that men, women, animals and all living things were created by God (Chiuta, Chauta) at Kapirintiwa, a mountain on the boundary between central Malawi and western Mozambique, during a thunderstorm.
		The first Chewa kingdom was established some time before or after 1480, and by the 16th century there were two systems of authority, one maintained by the Banda clan at Mankhamba (near Nthakataka), and the other by the Phiri clan at Manthimba.
		There are over one and a half million Chewa in Malawi and Zambia, who by the fact of being born Chewa, take part in the ritual life of Chewa villages.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/sub/chewa.html (518 words)

	Chewa
		As the Chewa are the largest ethnic group in Malawi, some are scattered throughout the country, but they live primarily in the Central Region.
		The Chewa have traditionally worshipped the spirits of their ancestors, but ancestral worship is being replaced by Christianity as the dominant religion among the Chewa.
		The responsiveness of the Chewa is a major reason why Malawi usually ranks in the top ten countries in the world in most church growth indicators for countries where Southern Baptists have missionaries serving.
	cesa.imb.org /peoplegroups/ChewaofMalawi.htm (626 words)

	Women's Organizing Abilities: Two Case Studies of Kenya and Malawi
		Chewa chieftaincies are organized by federations of small villages, numbering from fifty to 300 people, into group Chiefs over a few related villages, to regional Chiefs over a geographic area, to a few paramount chiefs, splitting the central region into several separate districts.
		Chewa villages are generally structured around relations to a senior woman, the ancestress, or actually the grandmother or great grandmother of the female relatives, the liwele of the village.
		In Chewa society, the underlying principle of a community is unity; unity of members, of man and woman, of families, and ultimately unity between man and God, and man and nature.
	www.odii.com /Papers/Malawi1.htm (10014 words)

	Chewa -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Chewa language, also called Chinyanja, is important in Malawi.
		The Lozi (Barotse), who dominate much of the upper Zambezi, have taken advantage of the seasonal flooding of the Barotse Plain for centuries and have an agricultural economy that is supplemented by animal husbandry, fishing, and trade.
		The two largest groups are the Chewa (or Cewa) and the Nyanja.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9023915?tocId=9023915 (413 words)

	Chewa - Ethnos - Books about the Chewa People
		One branch, the ancestors of the present-day Chewas, moved south to the west bank of the lake.
		The Chewas constitute 90% of the population of the central region; the Nyanja tribe predominates in the south and the Tumbuka in the north.
		Catholics, peasants and Chewa resistance in Nyasaland, 1889-1939
	www.almudo.com /ethnos/Chewa.htm (351 words)

	African Tribes - Chewao People
		The Chewa originated in the country of Zaire, but they emigrated to northern Zambia and central Malawi where they now live.
		The Chewa distinguish themselves from the other cultures by their distinct language, specials tattoos, and the possession of secret societies.
		The Chewa people believed that all living things were created by God (they called Chiuta, or Chaunta) on a mountain named Kapirintiwa, during a thunderstorm.
	www.africaguide.com /culture/tribes/chewa.htm (367 words)

	Malawi
		The people who speak Chichewa, known as A-Chewa, trace their origins to a group of people known as the Maravi who migrated from the lower basin of the Congo in Central Africa and eventually settled in the land mass now covered by Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
		The label Chewa was, according to some accounts, one they acquired during a sojourn in Zambia before they pressed on and made their way into Malawi.
		According to Kamuzu Banda, the former President of the Republic of Malawi, the name Chewa derives from the word Cheva which was applied to them as a migrating group and had the meaning of "foreigner".
	www.goodnewsmedia.com /malawi (524 words)

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		Chewas, meanwhile, had the misfortune of being settled by missionaries from the Dutch Reformed Church, a South Africa society that, for reasons of ideology and racism, invested almost no resources or energy in promoting African literacy.
		Although data on educational attainment among Chewas and Tumbukas in Northern Rhodesia are not available, the disparity in the educational commitment of the missionary societies that worked among these groups strongly suggests that the gulf between Tumbukas and Chewas in Nyasaland was mirrored by a similar gap between members of these communities in Northern Rhodesia.
		Chewas and Tumbukas in Zambia are operating in a much larger political arena than their co-ethnics across the border in Malawi, and as a consequence they tend to look beyond the cultural differences that divide them and focus instead on the differences that separate them from competitors in other regions of the country.
	cas.uchicago.edu /workshops/cpolit/papers/posner.doc (7438 words)

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		As Kings Phiri points out, "...matriliny among the Chewa is a complex of several variables, including the nature of marriage, residence during marriage, the exercise of domestic authority and the control or custody of children" (257).
		The Chewa matrilineal system is based on the dual concept of mbumba and nkhoswe which form the banja or family group.
		For her the advantages consist of the right to remain in the village of her kinfolk; the protection of her nkhoswe; the right to keep her offspring; the right to remarry after the death of or divorce from a spouse; and perhaps most significantly the right to inherit land from her mother.
	www.brocku.ca /epi/casid/miller.htm (12224 words)

	Linköpings universitet: Religionsvetenskap
		Argues that the traditional Chewa understanding of death is close to the Christian one, since death is understood not as annihilation of the person but rather the beginning of a new life.
		Expounds the Chewa vision of bondedness between the human community and the natural order as a complex within which life (moyo) and personhood (umunthu) are realised to the full.
		Dis cusses death rituals among the Chewa in respect of a newly born baby, a daughter-in-law, a pregnant woman, a wealthy man, a lead ing ins truct ress (nankungwi) and a group village headman, based on research at Njombwa village, T.A. Kaomba in Kasungu.
	www.liu.se /irk/religion/unima/biblio.htm (18482 words)

	African Languages - Chewa, Nyanja, Kikuyu, Kpelle - (ASC)(MSU)
		This language belongs to the Nyanja Group of Bantu (Guthrie G30) and is spoken in Malawi (where it is known as Chewa or Chichewa) and in Zambia (where it is known as Nyanja or Chinyanja).
		A standardized orthography for Chewa in Malawi exists, as does one for Nyanja in Zambia.
		Kikuyu (technically, Gikuyu) (Guthrie E51) belongs to the Kamba-Kikuyu subgroup of Bantu and is spoken in an area extending from Nairobi to the southern and southwestern slopes of Mt. Kenya, in Kenya.
	www.isp.msu.edu /AfrLang/language4.htm (372 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The people who speak Chi-Chewa, known as A-Chewa, trace their origins to a group of people known as the Maravi (according to some Portuguese records) who migrated from the lower basin of the Congo in Central Africa and eventually settled in the land mass now covered by Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
		According to Kamuzu Banda, the former President of the Republic of Malawi, the name Chewa derives from the word Cheva or Sheva or Seva which was applied to them as a migrating group and had the meaning of "foreigner".
		Meanwhile, the Chewa who had settled around the southern end of Lake Malawi and spread into the southeast of Malawi to the area surrounding Lake Chirwa and to the Mozambique part of the shores of Lake Malawi, encountered another ethnic group, aYao.
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/aflang/chichewa/background.html (3756 words)

	World congress on language policies
		The study also showed that the Chewa are notoriously loyal to their ethnic language for the most part.
		With regard to mother tongue and the choice of a language in parliament, the majority of the Chewa MPs were in favor of the bilingual policy while native speakers of other major languages (Chilomwe, Chiyao, Chitumbuka) favored the exclusive use of English.
		The Chewa MPs would like to maintain the name most probably because of the political and cultural clout it confers on their ethnic group.
	www.linguapax.org /congres/taller/taller1/Matiki.html (7485 words)

	Times of Zambia
		THE land of the Chewas was engulfed in deep sorrow as its inhabitants groaned and mourned the passing of their visionary Paramount Chief Kalonga Gawa Undi X whose 50-year reign sustained the Chewa territories in the region, besides helping to shape Zambia’s political landscape.
		As the Chewa elders fired the royal muzzleloaders to signify the mortal flight of their paramount chief from the palace last Friday morning, the appearance of one Fred Daka, the Undi’s successor, was consolation to the mourners that Chewaland would live on.
		Although Chewas are a matrilineal society, women were not allowed to venture near the graveyard just like the journalists covering the funeral and all the strangers except a handful of guests representing the three governments, traditional establishments and family members.
	www.times.co.zm /news/viewnews.cgi?category=8&id=1102366273 (1741 words)

	The Chewa (Nyanja) People of Southern Africa
		Chewa and English were made the official languages of Malawi in 1968.
		Because Chewa has become the common language in the Lake Malawi area, it is often called Nyanja (from Chinjanja, meaning "Language of the Lake").
		The responsiveness of the Chewa is a major reason why Malawi usually ranks in the top ten countries in the world in many church growth indicators.
	strategyleader.org /profiles/chewa.html (643 words)

	AXIS GALLERY / AFRICAN ART / CHEWA & RELATED PEOPLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The senior branch of the Maravi are the Chewa, among whom Nyau is thought to have existed for several centuries before spreading to the southernmost Maravi, the Mang¹anja, in about 1875.
		The majority of the masks in the collection were obtained in the Chewa heartland; a few are from the Mang¹anja.
		As recently as 1992, Barbara Blackmun commented that "Malawi is still ignored in the African art literature." This is surprising because Maravi masquerade arts share fascinating similarities with the Luba peoples, to whom the Chewa trace their origins, and with such other peoples of the region as the Chokwe, Bemba, and Makonde.
	www.axisgallery.com /african_art/chewa (633 words)

	Kuala Lumpur - Red Dragon Hostel - Topic Powered by Groupee Community
		Chewa immediately attmpted to dissuade him from even considering the prospect.
		My sister and I told him the going rates, seeing as how Chewa was being so evasive, and gave him the general gist of the place.
		Chewa accused us of spreading racist rumours about him, and told us that we Americans had no business being in Malaysia.
	boards.bootsnall.com /eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/448097925/m/22400012216 (591 words)

	JCTR Bulletin Number 56: Article 1
		Chewa ancestral veneration is gradually being replaced by Christian veneration of saints.
		Chewa people believe that the more children one has the more the possibilities the person has for his personhood of immortality as an ancestor.
		Although Chewa spirits have no fixed abode Chewa people believe that there are certain places in the universe which are designated as ancestors’ residence, for example, the under world, certain trees, graveyards, cooking stones, winds, rivers.
	www.jctr.org.zm /bulletins/bull56arti.htm (2339 words)

	Online Readings in Psychology and Culture, Unit 5, Chapter 2
		He had Chewa adults with no formal schooling nominate children familiar to them for typical tasks in their village or community (e.g., being sent on an errand, looking after a pot on the fire) and to give reasons for their nominations.
		The findings by Serpell (1991) and Grigorenko and others (1999, 2001) that intelligence among the Chewa of North Eastern Zambia and the Luo of Kenya was unrelated to school achievement suggest that school activities in the two communities were not compatible with the activities that are valued by subsistence agricultural economies.
		It is likely that with increasing levels of literacy among the Chewa and the Luo, the gap between their view of intelligence and the activities of schooling will narrow and be more encompassing of the activities of schooling.
	www.ac.wwu.edu /~culture/Mpofu.htm (4306 words)

	chewa_religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Chewa are Negroid people of average size.
		The Chewa language uses the Roman alphabet and is closely related to other Bantu languages.
		The major life events of weddings, births, and funerals are very important in Chewa customs.
	www.meta-religion.com /World_Religions/chewa_religion.htm (440 words)

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		The Chewa: a matrilineal population in Southern Malawi
		Our research on the Gabbra and the Chewa demonstrates that, in the patrilineal population, the additional benefit of wealth to sons is considerably greater than to daughters.
		In contrast, in the matrilineal population, the benefit of wealth to the reproductive success of males and females is approximately equal.
	www.ucl.ac.uk /heeg/matriliny.htm (996 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Chewa Traders is a distributor of fine African handicrafts from Malawi and Zambia, such as handpainted textiles, pottery and elephant dung paper and other stationary.
		Chewa Traders is dedicated to increasing business investment in small business owners in sub-Saharan Africa.
		Chewa Traders is a proud member of the African and American Business Womans Alliance (www.aabwa.com)
	www.chewatraders.com (68 words)

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		Of them, the Yao live in the south, the Chewa in the central and south, the Tumbuka in the north, the Angoni in north and central and the Chipoka in the central while the Tonga tribesmen inhabit the area along the lake shore.
		The Chewa being the dominant group, their language called Chewa or Chichewa is the common national language spoken across the country.
		The traditional dance of the Chewa tribe is the Gule Wamkulu, danced to propitiate the spirits.
	www.journeymart.com /DExplorer/Africa/Malawi?SubLink=DExplorer/Africa/Malawi/ciPeople_Inc.htm (646 words)

	CAMA - Chewa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Chewa are mainly located in Malawi, and also in Zimbabwe and Zambia, although they originated in the Luba area of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo).
		The Chewa are also known for their masks.
		There are over 1.5 million Chewa in Malawi and Zambia, athough fewer take part in the secret societies.
	www.uct.ac.za /cama/CAMA/webcomponents/php/gen_Culture.php?id=4 (74 words)

	Eastern Province Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The major ethnic groups in Eastern Province are Ngoni, Chewa, Senga, Nsenga, Tumbuka and Kunda.
		The predominant area for the Ngoni and Chewa ethnic groups are Chipata, Chadiza and Katete Districts respectively.
		However, a lot of interaction and migration between the ethnic groups is common, even reaching an extent where some groups have Chiefs from a different ethnic group (e.g.
	www.easternchamber.com /Investment/socio-economics.htm (2455 words)

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		We will continue our uphill walk till we reach Chewa.
		Chewa is located on the top of the hill from where the border with Nepal is demarcated.
		The white piller-like structure is the only way to find out if we are in Nepal or in Sikim.
	www.drukexpeditions.com /india/sikkim_darj/druk_skm_exclusif.htm (896 words)

	CONVERSATIONS WITH KAMUZU: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DR. H. KAMUZU BANDA - Part 1, By Dr. Donal Brody - February 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The products of two great Chewa clans, the father's Banda clan and the mother's Phiri clan came together to bring life to a baby, Kamuzu, "little root" signifying the Chewa custom of using certain medicinal roots prescribed by traditional doctors, or Sing’anga, to hasten conception and birth of a child.
		Kamuzu was born at a time when the bonds of Chewa tradition and culture were still very strong; when the family relationships and ties still provided the matrix of obedience and discipline which was to influence Kamuzu and everything he did throughout his life.
		He made string and rope from various plants and while doing that, became interested in their medicinal properties at a very early age, gathering and categorizing them and seeking information from traditional doctors, Sing’anga, all of whom are experts to this day in the curing properties of indigenous plant life.
	www.greatepicbooks.com /epics/february2000.html (3597 words)

	People and Culture of Malawi - Africa
		Malawi has a population of about 10,000,416 (July 1999 est.), with 90% of the population living in the rural areas, and population growth rate of 1.57% (1999 est.).
		The Chichewa (Chewa) people forming the largest part of population group and are largely in the central and southern parts of the country.
		The Chewa people, who form the largest part of the population predominantly Christian/Protestant and the Yao people are mainly Muslim
	www.africaguide.com /country/malawi/culture.htm (507 words)

	GUS
		[1], on the Chewa: “[…] the marriage may be contracted long before the girl is old enough for consummation, and in such a case she must abstain from intercourse with any other man, just as though the marriage had been consummated.
		If, however, she is married before she can know her mind, and subsequently refuses to have intercourse with the husband when approaching puberty, she is not held to the contract”.
		The breaking of the hymen is an integral part of the puberty ceremonies of a Chewa girl (Hodgson; Gordon and Brelsford, 1950:p219[4]; Phiri, 1998:p131)
	www2.rz.hu-berlin.de /sexology/GESUND/ARCHIV/GUS/CEWA.HTM (556 words)

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