Lexicographical Neighbors of Shambas
Literary usage of Shambas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels in the Coastlands of British East Africa and the Islands of Zanzibar by William Walter Augustine Fitzgerald (1898)
"THANKS to Weaver's watchful supervision all was going on well on the shambas.
Lions had again made their appearance, and made an awful row the night of my ..."
2. Human Geography: An Attempt at a Positive Classification, Principles and by Jean Brunhes, Isaiah Bowman, Richard Elwood Dodge, Irville Charles Le Compte (1920)
"In any case, if one of the shambas finally consents to live within the borj, he
is never willing that his family should leave the tent. ..."
3. The British Mission to Uganda in 1893 by Gerald Herbert Portal (1894)
"More excitement about shambas. Protestants object to giving up shambas on king's
hill. ... Mohammedans ask for shambas on road to their provinces. ..."
4. The British Mission to Uganda in 1893 by Gerald Herbert Portal (1894)
"More excitement about shambas. Protestants object to giving up shambas on king's
hill. ... Mohammedans ask for shambas on road to their provinces. ..."
5. Human Geography: An Attempt at a Positive Classification, Principles and by Jean Brunhes, Isaiah Bowman, Richard Elwood Dodge, Irville Charles Le Compte (1920)
"... to intrust the guarding of them to some shambas; but the shambas are inferior
guardians, for it is very difficult to get them to live within the borj. ..."
6. Gender, Land and Livelihoods in East Africa: Through Farmers' Eyes by Ritu Verma (2001)
"Because if you plant your things ...the thief comes and steals ... because of
the small shambas we have. You can have a tiny farm and one has five, ..."
7. Gender, Land and Livelihoods in East Africa: Through Farmers' Eyes by Ritu Verma (2001)
"Because if you plant your things ... the thief comes and steals ... because of
the small shambas we have. You can have a tiny farm and one has five, ..."
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