kutan.
/ˈkuːtə/, U.S. /ˈkudə/ In Central Africa, especially Zambia: a traditional court or council. Cf. kgotla n. 2.
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1943 M. Gluckman Admin. Organisation Barotse Native Authorities 7 Kuta (khotla),..council, court, Native Authority.
1943 M. Gluckman Admin. Organisation Barotse Native Authorities 12 I think the kuta would be made more efficient if its numbers were reduced; but this..can only be discussed after the kuta organisation has been made regular, instead of muddled.
1959 G. D. Mitchell Sociol. 83 The council, known as the kuta, is both a political and judicial body.
1972 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 13 469 To ensure that the indunas were closely involved with the work of the kuta, Lewanika stipulated that each induna should maintain at least one permanent household at the capital.
1985 E. I. Njiro Hist. Afr. 19th Cent. i. 43 There were four inner councils known as kutas. Each of these consisted of a few Indunas who attended to the finer details of state.
2005 H. Macmillan Afr. Trading Empire ii. 29 He had little power to deal with disputes between traders and the Lozi population because traders took these to the kuta, the royal court, which was presided over by the Ngambela or his deputy.
2018 S. F. Moore in I. Horowitz Culture & Civilization IV. xv. 219 [During World War II] 80 percent of the cases before the kutas (courts) were domestic relations cases.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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