| 单词 | nyabingi cult |
| 释义 | > as lemmasNyabingi cult 1. Of, relating to, or designating the Nyabingi religious cult and political movement in East Africa (see sense A. 1). Esp. in Nyabingi cult. ΚΠ 1920 Times 4 Nov. 11/7 News has been received from East Africa that the dangerous Nabingi Society is once again active in Ruanda... The Nabingi warriors, accompanied by a ‘sacred sheep’, prolonged an attack..for 13 hours. 1957 M. M. Edel Chiga of W. Uganda 3 During the early part of the twentieth century..the Nyabingi cult..was growing into a political force. 1968 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 9 451 The Nyabingi movement presented itself as a challenge to white occupation and administration in the northern areas of Rwanda. 1979 E. I. Steinhart in J. B. Webster Chronol., Migration & Drought in Interlacustrine Afr. vii. 196 It comes as a slight surprise..that the Nyabingi Cult attempted to deify Kitami, the ruler of a less rigid ‘golden age’ and that it should develop as a popular movement of resistance. 1984 J. Freedman Nyabingi i. 16 The Nyabingi cult emerged in the late 1700's. < as lemmas |
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