ABSTRACT
The organization as such suggests an original military structure : the head, mkuu (or mkubwa) wa kyama (or chama) is assisted by a waziri and councillors (ahal mashauri). The dancers themselves are known as wana chama. The spokesman is styled kijumbe (cf. jumbe). Also of dual character is the sword dance (hanzua) in which champions of two opposing parties carry out a mock fight in which they have to ward off each other's blows. In Lamu also ngoma associations, for men or women, perpetuate the old factional juxtaposition and strife of the now obsolete town halves, Zena and Suudi,™ which also once had military functions. This also happened in Mombasa.347*
P O L IT IC A L O R G A N IZA TIO N AND LAW
present sultanate of Zanzibar, there were two types of state structure: viz., princi palities under hereditary dynasts, on the one hand, and oligarchies on the other. As there is more information on the first than on the second type of state, we shall start by describing what may be called the kingdom.
