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A Researcher's Bibliography on References
to the Yawo (aka "Yao, Ajawa") People of Africa


English resources:

  • Abdallah. Y., The Yaos; Chiikala cha WaYao, (ed), M. Sanderson, London: Frank Cass, 1973.
  • Abdulla, Y.B., Chikala cha Wa Yao, (ed) M. Sanderson, Government Printer Zomba, Malawi, 1919.
  • Alpers, E., "Trade, and Society among the Yao in the Nineteenth Century", Journal of African History, 10, (3) (1969), pp. 405-420.
  • Bone, D. S., "Islam in Malawi", Journal of Religion in Africa, vol. 13, (2), (1982), pp. 126-138.
  • Bone, D. S. "The Development of Islam in Malawi and the Response of the Christian Churches: 1940-1986.", BICMURA, vol. 5, (4), (1987), pp. 7-24.
  • Boucher, C., "Birth Rites", Mua Mission, unpublished.
  • Boucher, C., "Jando", Mua Mission, unpublished.
  • Boucher, C., "Msondo", Mua Mission, unpublished.
  • Boucher, C., "Yao Chieftainship", Mua Mission, unpublished.
  • Chaponda, O., "The Christianised Yao Initiation Rite of Mangochi Catholic Diocese: Assessing an Experiment in Inculturation", M.A. module, Chancellor College, Zomba, 1999.
  • Chimombo, S. Malawian Oral Literature, Zomba: Centre for Social Research, 1988.
  • Chimombo, S. "Oral Literature Research in Malawi: A Survey and Bibliography, 1870-1986", Research in African Literature, vol. 18, (4), (Winter 1987), pp. 485-498.
  • Dicks, I., "The Islamisation of the Yao of Malawi", M.A. Module, Chancellor College, 1998.
  • Fiedler, K., Christianity and African Culture; Conservative German Protestant Missionaries in Tanzania, 1900-1940, Leiden/New York/Koln: E. J. Brill, 1996.
  • Gale, W.D., Zambezi Sunrise, Howard B. Timmins, Cape Town, 1958.
  • Greenstein, R., "The Nyasalands Policy Toward's African Muslims", From Nyasaland to Malawi, (ed), R.J. MacDonald, Nairobi: East Africa Publishing House, 1975, pp. 144-168
  • Hanna, A. J., The beginning of Nyasaland and North Eastern Rhodesia: 1859-95, Clarendon Press, London, 1956.
  • Heckel, B., "The Yao Tribe; Their Culture and Education", in Institute of Education Reports, London: Oxford University Press, 1935, pp. 8-42.
  • Hetherwick, A., "Note on Yao", in Nyassa News, Nov. 1893.
  • Hetherwick, A., A Hand book of the Yao Language, Aberdeen: 1889.
  • Hetherwick, A., "Some Animistic Beliefs among the Yaos of British Central Africa", Journal of Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 32, (1902), pp. 89-95.
  • Hetherwick, A., "Islam and Christianity in Nyasaland", Muslim World, vol. 17, (2), (April 1927) pp.184-186.
  • Hetherwick, A., The Gospel and the African; Croall Lectures, Edinburgh: T and T. Clark, 1932.
  • Hynde, R.S. Marriage and relationships among the Yaos, Niyasa News, 7, 1895.
  • Ibik, J. O., The Law of Marriage and Divorce; The Yao, London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1970.
  • Johnson, W., "Mohammedism and the Yaos". Central Africa, vol. 339, (March, 1911), pp. 57-61.
  • Johnson, W., "The Yao. A defense and a suggestion". Nyassa News, 2, 1893.
  • King, N. Q. and Fiedler K. (eds), R.. Lamburn- From a Missionary's Notebook: The Yao of Tunduru, Fort Lauderdale: Verlag Breitenbach, 1991.
  • Kubik, G., "Boy's Circumcision School of the Yao; Malawi South Eastern Africa", Gottingen: Ethnol, vol. 9/1-D1244, (1979), pp. 3-19.
  • Lamba, I. C., "The Missionary and Ethnography in Malawi; a Study of Malawi and the Yao to 1920", Society of Malawi Journal, vol. 38, (1), (1985), pp. 62-79.
  • Lamburn, R.G.P., "Some notes on Yao", in Tanganyica Notes, 29, pp. 73-84. 1950.
  • Macdonald, D., "Yao and Nyanja Tales", Bantu Studies, 12 (4), pp. 251-285. 1938.
  • MacDonald, D., "East African Tales", Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1881.
  • MacDonald, D., "Africana; The Heart of Heathen Africa", vol. 1, London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1882.
  • Mair, L., "A Yao Girl's Initiation", Man, 98, (May, 1951), pp. 60-63.
  • Maples, C. "Unangu", Nyassa News, 2. 1893.
  • Martin, B., Muslim Brotherhoods in 19th Century Africa, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
  • Mgeni, M., "Initiation rites into adulthood are prominent in many Malawian societies; my reasons and suggestions for a better inculturation: A case study- Jando at Msembuka Village, T/A Chamba", Chancellor College, unpublished document, 1996.
  • Mgeni, M., "Girls Initiation in a Yao setting and Christian Attitude: A case study at Msembuka village, Chikala Plateau, T.A. Chamba", Chancellor College, unpublished document, 1996.
  • Mitchell J. C., "The Yao of Southern Malawi", Africa, vol. 19, (1949), pp. 94-100.
  • Mitchell J. C., "The Yao of Southern Malawi", in E. Colson and M. Gluckman (eds), Seven Tribes of Central Africa, London: Oxford University Press, 1951.
  • Mitchell, J. C., "Prelimary Notes on the Land Tenure and Agriculture among the Machinga Yao", The Nyasaland Journal, vol. 5, (2), (1952), pp. 18-30.
  • Mitchell, J. C., The Yao Village: A Study in the Social Structure of a Malawian Tribe, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1956.
  • Mitchell, J. C., "A Note on the African Conception of Causality", The Nyasaland Journal, vol. 5, (2), (1952), pp. 51-58.
  • Msiska, A., "Towards a Cultural History of Malawi; The Case of Colonialism & Yao Initiation Rites in Southern Malawi 1891-1961", M.A. Thesis, University of Malawi, 1992.
  • Nelson H., Malawi: A Country Study, Washington: US Government Print, 1975.
  • Newitt, Malyn, A History of Mozambique, Witswatersrand University Press, 1995.
  • Peace Corps Chiyao Trainee's Manual, Lilongwe, 1998.
  • Phiri, K., "Yao Intrusion into Southern Malawi, Nyanja Resistance and Colonial Conquest, 1830-1900", Trans-African Journal of History, vol. 13, (1984), pp. 157-163.
  • Price, T. "Yao Origins", The Nyasaland Journal, vol. 17, (2), 1964, pp. 11-16.
  • Prins, A.H., The Swahili speaking peoples of Zanzibar, and East Africa Coast, International African Institute, London, 1960.
  • Rangeley, W., "The Amacinga Yao", The Nyasaland Journal, vol. 15, (2), 1962, pp. 40-70.
    Available at the Society of Malawi, Blantyre (www.societyofmalawi.org)
  • Rangeley, W., "The Ayao", The Nyasaland Journal, vol. 16, (1), 1963, pp. 7-27.
    Available at the Society of Malawi, Blantyre (www.societyofmalawi.org)
  • Rau, W., Cultural Atlas of Africa, J. Murray (ed), Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1981.
  • Ross, K. R., (ed), "Mponda Mission Diary 1889-1891", Christianity in Malawi, Gweru: Mambo press, 1996.
  • Sanderson, G. M., A Dictionary of the Yao Language, Zomba: The Government Printer, 1954.
  • Schoffeleers, J. M., and Roscoe, A. A., Land of Fire; Oral Literature from Malawi, Limbe: Popular Publications, 1987.
  • Schoffeleers, J. M., Religion and the Dramatisation of Life, Blantyre: Claim, 1997.
  • Soko, B., "Traditional Forms of Instruction: The Case of the Jando Initiation Ceremony", Catching the Wind: Oral Tradition and Education, Durban: (1989), pp. 147-161.
  • Stannus, H. S. and Davey, J. "The Initiation Ceremony for Boys Among the Yao of Nyasaland", Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 43, (1913), pp. 119-123.
  • Stannus, H. S., "Notes on Some Tribes of British Central Africa", Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. XL, (1910), pp. 285-355.
  • Stannus, H. S., "The Yao of Nyasaland", Harvard African Studies, III, (1922).
  • Stigand, C. H., "Notes on Natives of Nyassaland, N.E. Rhodesia and Portuguese Zambezia; their arts, customs and modes of subsistence", Journal of the Royal Anthropology Institute, XXXVII, 6, London, 1907.
  • Tew, Mari, Peoples of the Lake Nyassa Region, International African Institute, Oxford, 1950.
  • Trimingham, J. S., Islam in East Africa, Oxford: Clarendon, 1964.
  • Webster, B., "Yao Hill to Mulanje Mountain Ivory Slaves & the South Western Expansion of the Yao ,1600-1865", Staff Research Paper, University of Malawi, History Department, 1977.
  • Worafold, W.B., Portuguese Nyassaland, London, 1899.
  • Young, E., Nyassa, a Journal of adventures, London, 1877.

French:

  • Balsan, Francois -- Terres Vierges au Mozambique, 1960.
Italiano:
  • Lunati, A -- "La tribu 'Yao'. Storia, etnografia, costumi", in Missioni Consolata, Torino, no. 3, 5, 7, pp. 40-41, 64-66, 88-90, ano 1948.
Recursos no Portugues:
  • Antonio, Augusto -- Estudos psicotecnicos--nivel intelectual de algumas tribos de Mocambique. Porto 1956.
  • Brito, A. da Rocha -- "O rito da circuncisao entre os indigenas", in Boletim da Sociedade de Estudos de Mocambique, 1 (4), 23-30, 1932.
  • Cardozo, Augusto -- Viagem de exploracao ao Niassa, Soc. Geog. Lisboa, 1886.
  • Eca, Vicente de Almedia -- O Niassa Portugues. Lisboa, 1899.
  • Lacerda, D. Jose de -- Exame das viagens do Dr. Livingston. Lisboa, 1867.
  • Lobato, Sousa A. -- "Monografia etnografica original sobre o povo ajaua", in Boletim da Sociedade de Estudos de Mocambique, 19 (63), pp. 7-17, Lourenco Marques, 1940.
  • Ornelas, Aires de -- Racas e Linguas Indigenas de Mocambique. Lisboa, Soc. Geog. Lisboa, 1901.
  • Relatorios da Companhia do Niassa -- Ocupacao das terras do Mataca. Moc, 1913.
  • Santos Junior -- "Alguns aspectos da IV Campanha da Missao antropologica de Mocambique", in Bulletin de la Societe Portugaise de sciences naturelles, tomo XV, no 23, Porto, 1947.
  • Santos Junior -- Antropologia de Mocambique, Porto, 1956.
  • Silva Rego, A. -- Alguns problemas sociologico-missionarios da African Negra. Junta de Investigacoes do Ultramar, Lisboa, 1960.
  • Silva Rego, A. -- Curso de Missionologia. Agencia-Geral do Ultramar, Lisboa, 1956.
  • Silva Rego, A. -- Licoes de Missionologia. Junta de Investigacoes do Ultramar, Lisboa, 1961.
  • Sousa, Eng. Figueiredo de Gomes e -- Ensaios sobre a Colonizacao do Distrito do Niassa. Bol. Soc. Est. Moc., 1934.
  • Peirone, Frederico Jose -- A Tribo Ajaua do Alto Niassa (Mocambique) e Alguns Aspectos da sua Problematica Neo-Islamica. Junta de Investigacoes do Ultramar, Lisboa, Portugal, 1967.
  • N. Valdez dos Santos -- O Desconhecido Niassa, Junta de Investigacoes do Ultramar, Lisboa, Portugal, 1964.
  • Viana, M. Jose de -- Da tatuagem "nembo" entre os Wa-Yao. Lisboa, Bol. Ger. das Col., 1947.

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