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Basotho

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Ba·so·tho  (b-st, -st)
n. pl. Basotho or Ba·so·thos
1. A Sotho-speaking people of Lesotho and adjacent parts of South Africa.
2. A member of this people.
[Sotho : ba-, pl. n. pref. + -sotho, Sotho.]
Basotho [bəˈsuːtuː -ˈsəʊtəʊ]
n pl -tho, -thos
(Social Science / Peoples) a member of the subgroup of the Sotho people who chiefly inhabit Lesotho Former name Basuto
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Noun1.Basotho - a member of a subgroup of people who inhabit Lesotho
Basutoland, Kingdom of Lesotho, Lesotho - a landlocked constitutional monarchy in southern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1966
African - a native or inhabitant of Africa


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A brief author's note at the beginning explains that the Basotho women in southern Africa paint their houses as a form of prayer to their ancestors; Elsina longs to paint pictures on her own house to convince the ancestors to send much-needed rain.
Jeanette Winter Elsina's Clouds by Lempke, Susan Dove / The Horn Book Magazine
Basotho teachers will arrive for a return visit in April.
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I began with Stella and formalism, but Perrone's references range far more widely: His gallery press release mentions Aboriginal, Anasazi, Basotho, Igbo, Incan, Indian, Kuba, Navajo, Tibetan, and Turkmen art; Africa is also present in the material itself, the mud cloth (bogolanfini) of the Bamana of Mali.
Jeff Perrone: Cheim & Read by Frankel, David / Artforum International
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