Nziman.adj.

1911 F. W. H. Migeod Lang. W. Afr. I. vii. 179 In Nsima (Zema) there is also a suffix, but it appears that there exists also initial change, the same as in Twi.

1945 I. C. Ward Rep. Investig. Gold Coast Lang. Probl. 61 Nzema..appears to be a strong admixture of two language groups, the Fante branch of the Akan language and some other group lying to the west.

1971 L. A. Boadi in J. Spencer Eng. Lang. W. Afr. 49 The indigenous languages [of the Gold Coast],..are still used and are, in many cases, deliberately cultivated; no less than six of them—Akan, Gã, Ewe, Nzima, Dagbani and Hausa—are regularly heard on the radio.

1998 A. Dalby Dict. Langs. 80/2 Anyi includes the sub-dialects Nzema (or Nzima) and Ahanta.

1954 Internat. Affairs 30 312 A man who is a Ga may..build his campaign around the fact that the essentially Ga Accra is represented by Nkrumah who is a Nzima.

1968 S. Andreski Afr. Predicament iv. 64 Until quite recently his [sc. Nkrumah's] ethnic affinities were consistently ignored in Ghana politics, which may be due to the fact that his ethny, the Nzimas, are a small and remote group as far as most Ghanaians are concerned.

1973 T. D. Roberts Area Handbk. Ivory Coast iv. 60 Two other Akan-speaking peoples, the Abron and the Nzima, concentrated in Ghana, are also represented in the Ivory Coast.

1996 J. S. Olson Peoples of Afr. 171 During the nineteenth century, the Evalues, like the Nzimas, to whom they are closely related, became important traders between interior tribes and English sailors.

1926 C. W. Welman (title) A preliminary study of the Nzima language.

1958 W. E. F. Ward Hist. Ghana (ed. 2) vii. 145 A few years later the Dutch sent an expedition from Axim westward across the Ankoba into the Nzima country.

1973 T. D. Roberts Area Handbk. Ivory Coast viii. 137 After he was expelled, a number of English-speaking Fanti and Nzima clerks from the Gold Coast..took over his work.

1997 Internat. Jrnl. Afr. Hist. Stud. 30 333 By the late nineteenth century, Nzima traders were operating as far as 80 kilometers inland, but had no direct contact with the Jula to the north.