Barotse

British  

/ bəˈrɒtsɪ /

noun

1. a member of a Negroid people of central Africa living chiefly in SW Zambia

2. the language spoken by this people; Lozi

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Example Sentences

The Barotse leaders, it seemed, disliked federation, not because it brought too little freedom to their people, but because it might bring too much.

From Time Magazine Archive

We object to this act," said the Barotse, "because it did not come to us through our Paramount Chief, or even through the resident commissioner.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the Barotse of South Africa, for this worship, “they have altars in their huts made of branches, on which they place human bones, but they have no images, pictures, or idols.”

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill

But the men who had come with him from the Barotse country to Loanda had to return, and Livingstone knew that they were quite unable to perform the journey without him.

From The Personal Life of David Livingstone by Blaikie, William Garden

The finger of Providence clearly pointed to a region farther north in the country of the Barotse or beyond it, He admitted that there were pros and cons in the case.

From The Personal Life of David Livingstone by Blaikie, William Garden