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  "name": "Zulu izibongo (praise-poetry)",
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  "lineage": "Zulu izibongo praise-poetry tradition continuous from pre-colonial Zulu royal-court praise-singer (imbongi) practice through 19th-century Shaka-kaSenzangakhona-era continuous performance into modern South-African Zulu cultural-practice; the imbongi is the hereditary praise-poetry-and-political-orator role",
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