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changes. We will show how, in this context, the Dghweɗe had most likely gained an enduring
advantage of security and food safety over the adjacent plains, which only ended during a
very unsettling colonial period, perhaps even for Ghwa'a.
We will then illustrate in Part Three how our Dghweɗe oral history retold reveals step by step
fragments of an oral narrative of a likely late pre-colonial past, by contextualising the various
aspects of Dghweɗe culture and showing its intrinsic complexities. As mentioned earlier, we
will stick as much as possible to the authentic views of our Dghweɗe protagonists concerning
their own culture as it was relayed to us by them. In doing so we will also have a scholarly
discussion about the various ethnographic intricacies and their possible meanings, but attempt
not to go into any comparison for further academic illustration of such scholarly points. I will
leave that to my academic colleagues and the historians of tomorrow, of which we hope some
will be the grandchildren of my Dghweɗe friends to whom I passionately dedicate this book. I
ask their forgiveness for all the mistakes I have made, but unfortunately there was no longer
anyone else to ask for a more truly authentic local clarification!
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