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Chewa

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Che·wa  (chwä)
n.
A Bantu language spoken in Malawi, closely related to Nyanja.
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Noun1.Chewa - a member of the Bantu-speaking people of Malawi and eastern Zambia and northern Zimbabwe
Cewa, Chichewa
Malawi, Nyasaland, Republic of Malawi - a landlocked republic in southern central Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1964
Northern Rhodesia, Republic of Zambia, Zambia - a republic in central Africa; formerly controlled by Great Britain and called Northern Rhodesia until it gained independence within the commonwealth in 1964
Republic of Zimbabwe, Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia, Zimbabwe - a landlocked republic in south central Africa formerly called Rhodesia; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1980
African - a native or inhabitant of Africa


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9) and by including objects such as the Chewa basketry antelope to question our conventional understanding of what a "mask" might be.
The Sainsbury African galleries at the British museum by Hudson, Julie / African Arts
In building the collections over the last decade, curators had sought to add contemporary objects, such as a Somali nomadic house; a Chewa antelope body mask from Malawi; children's wire toys from Congo, Ghana, Mali, and Rwanda; mudcloth textiles (Fig.
Reflections on "African voices" at the Smithsonian's National Museum ... by Mason, Michael Atwood / African Arts
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