Sotho
| Basotho | |
 Basotho school | |
| Populations | |
|---|---|
| Total population | 5 158 000 |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 South Africa | 3 543 000 |
 Lesotho | 1 600 000 |
 Botswana | 9 900 |
 Swaziland | 5 400 |
| Other | |
| Language (s) | Northern Sotho , Southern Sotho |
| Group (s) connected (s) | Tswana |
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The Basotho (or named after their main tribe, the people of the family of Kafirs , living in Lesotho in Africa South, between 19 and 27 degrees latitude south in Kaffraria interior since XV century. The Basotho nation (capita Lesotho modern) emerged from the diplomacy of Moshoeshoe I. bringing together clans disparate Sotho origin that had been scattered during the early nineteenth century. Their country was first seen in 1801 by the English Trutt and Somerville.
The majority of Basotho live in southern Africa. We distinguish between Basotho (speaking Sotho South , in Lesotho ) and Tswana (speaking Sotho West , in Swaziland ) and Sotho inhabiting the northern provinces of South Africa ( Gauteng , Limpopo and Mpumalanga speaking Northern Sotho ).
The Basotho cattle raising, preparing skins and ivory.
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ethnonym
Is the singular of Basotho Mosotho (Basuto and Massouto respectively). The Basotho are also referred to as the Sotho.
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- This article includes excerpts from the dictionary Bouillet . You can remove this indication, if the text reflects the current knowledge on the subject, if sources are cited, it meets the current language and if it does not contain words that go against the rules neutrality of .
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Bibliography
- (In) Dan Bosko, Social Organizational Aspects of Religious Exchange Among Basotho, New York University, 1983, 356 p. (Thesis)
- (In) David Bellin Coplan, In the Time of Cannibals: the Word Music of South Africa's Basotho migrants, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1994, 300 p. ( ISBN 0226115747 )
- (In) J. Dreyer, "The Basotho hut: from Late Iron Age to present, in South African journal of ethnology, 16 (3), September 1993, p. 79-86
- (In) Jeff Guy and Thabane Motlatsi, "Basotho miners, oral history and worker's strategies", in Kaarsholm Preben (ed.), Cultural Struggle and Development in Southern Africa, Baobab Books, Harare, James Currey, London, Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH, 1991, p. 239-258
- (In) Myrtle Karstel, The Basotho blanket: traditional goal Borrowed, National Museum, Bloemfontein, 1995 194-223 ( ISBN 1868470121 )
- (In) Daniel P. Kunene, Heroic Poetry of the Basotho, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1971, 203 p. ( ISBN 0198151322 )
- (In) Thomas Lesaoana Manyeli, "Religious Symbols of the Basotho, in Mazenod Printing Works, Mazenod (Lesotho), 1992, 133 p.
- (In) Sindile Adelgisa Moitse, The Ethno-musicology Of The Basotho: A study of the entrenchment of music cultural institutions in Sotho, Southern Institute of African Studies, National University of Lesotho, Roma (Lesotho), 1990, 90 p. (Bilingual)
- (In) 'Makali Isabella Mokitimi, "Praise Poetry: Poetry of the Basotho praise," in Philip M. Peek, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia, Routledge, New York, 2004, p. 360-361
- (In) Hedley Sleath, A Decade With The Basotho, Dept. of Public Relations and Communications of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa in co-operation With The Board Of The Semonkong Methodist Hospital, Johannesburg, 1988, 114 p. ( ISBN 094745005X )
- (In) Gary Van Wyk, "The wall art of Basotho women (photo essay)" in African Arts (Los Angeles), 31 (3), Summer 1998, p. 58-65
- (In) Gary Van Wyk, African painted houses: Basotho Dwellings of Southern Africa, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1998, 168 p. ( ISBN 0810919907 )
- (In) Robin E. Wells, An Introduction to the Music of the Basotho, Museum and Archives Moriah, Moriah (Lesotho), 1994, 338 p. ( ISBN 9991179372 )
- (En) Eugene Arnaud Casalis, The Basuto, or Twenty-three years of residence and observation in southern Africa, C. Meyrueis and Co., Paris, 1859, 370 p.
- (En) E. Jacottet, Folktales of Basutos, Kraus Reprint, Nendeln, 1974 (1 st ed. E. Leroux, 1895), 292 p.
- (En) Claude Hlne Perrot, the Sotho and European missionaries in the nineteenth century, University of Abidjan, Abidjan, 1970, 185 p. (Thesis, Paris, 1963)
- (En) Paul Ramseyer, "Circumcision in the Basuto," in Journal of Ethnography and Folklore (Paris), 8 (33), 1928, p. 40-70
Discography
- (In) Tswana and Sotho Voices: Botswana, South Africa, Lesotho: 1951 '57 '59 (Vintage Hugh Tracey), International Library of African Music, Grahamstown, 2000
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