Sentence examples for chiefdoms from inspiring English sources
However, since 1905 the nine Ngok Dinka chiefdoms have been administered within the "Northern" region of Kordofan, as a result of a redrawing of provincial borders during the Anglo-Egyptian colonial period.
Chiefdoms are divided into sections governed by subchiefs and containing one or more villages or hamlets.
Outstanding arts of the chiefdoms of the north Andean portion of South America that did continue include pottery and stone carving of seats and statues (but generally not of architecture).
Among horticultural peoples with chiefdoms, the chief's ancestors, in time, become gods.
The political structure of the Chokwe seems to range from tributary chiefdoms to autonomous village groups.
The Maravi early established a federation of chiefdoms in the Congo region, and in the 15th century groups of them began migrating southward into what is now Zambia, eventually giving rise to all the Nyanja-speaking peoples of southeastern Zambia, including the Chewa and the Nsenga.
By the 1800s the extension of the firearms frontier was disrupting the Orange River valley and intensifying conflict between the Sotho-Tswana chiefdoms beyond.
The upheaval affected the southern chiefdoms and rebellious tributaries attacked by Shaka as far away as Pondoland.
John Momodu Kargbo, who heads an Ebola response team in the district said his village was in the poorest chiefdom of the Bombali region.
It is the poorest chiefdom in the district, very remote, very rural and not many people live there.
When she married, it was an arranged match, with a Sindhi bigwig, Asif Ali Zardari, whom she described in her autobiography as "the heir to the chiefdom of the 100,000-strong Zardari tribe".
