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What is a manyatta?

What is a manyatta? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (East Africa) A Masai or Samburu settlement or compound, often temporary, established by a family or clan, or as an encampment of young warriors. [from 20th c.]
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A tour operator says that for many visitors a holiday in Kenya is incomplete without a visit to a manyatta.
The Masai tribes, or sections of tribes, haunt certain districts. Every section has usually some three favourite districts, in each of which is a village called a manyatta.

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