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Twa, n. (and a.)|twɑː|
Also (pl.) Abatwa, Batwa, Watwa.
[a. Bantu twa foreigner, outsider, orig. applied by Bantu people to Bushmen, pygmies, and others.]
(A member of) a pygmy people inhabiting parts of Burundi, Rwanda, and Zaire. Also attrib. or as adj.
1878H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent I. xvii. 470 There is a race of dwarfs somewhere west of Mkinyaga called Mpundu, and another called the Batwa or Watwa. 1907Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 1906 689 [The San] are called Baroa by the Basuto, Abatwa by the Kafirs, San by themselves. 1920Smith & Dale Ila-Speaking Peoples N. Rhodesia p. xxvi, Along the Kafue are the river people, the Batwa. Their name is widely found in Africa: the Bushmen in the south are called Abatwa by the Zulus and Baroa by the Basuto. 1951E. Colson in Colson & Gluckman Seven Tribes Brit. Cent. Afr. II. ii. 109 He pays the Twa neighbour only a few sticks of tobacco. The Twa is then expected to tell all later comers that this site is reserved. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VIII. 318/1 Examples of Pygmoid groups living in close symbiosis with other peoples are the Twa. 1988Arena Autumn/Winter 58/2 The Twa, pigmy people who make up just one per cent of the population [of Burundi] and don't cause anyone any fuss. |