Nevanji

heir, successor

Ukama uhu

Nevanji munhu anogara nhaka yomufi, achitora zita nechinzvimbo chake mumhuri. Kazhinji anogadzwa pakurova guva. Ndiye anogovera pfuma yomufi zvichienderana nezvido zvake. Duramazwi rinotiwo nevanji mwana wekutanga mumhuri, kunyanya mwanakomana.

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In English

Nevanji is given as the Shona term for the heir who takes up a dead relative's name, place and duties, though one Shona dictionary defines it as a family's first-born son.

In Shona custom a dead man's place does not stay empty. Some time after the death, at kurova guva, the heir (also called dunzvi) takes up the dead man's position in the family, and after the ceremony he shares out the belongings according to the dead man's wishes, with the father's cattle usually kept for the sons' roora. A further ceremony passes on the name: the heir is addressed by the dead man's name and handed his tools, to ululation, as though the dead man had risen again in him.

Who inherits depends on what is being inherited. A widow was usually taken on by one of the dead man's younger brothers, seldom by an elder one, and a muzukuru could also inherit, though the children of that union took the dead man's family name; the relatives, the vazukuru, the dead man's sisters and his younger brothers all took part in the inheritance ceremony. A Shona dictionary gives nevanji a different sense, a family's first-born child, especially a son, the same as dangwe.

Mibvunzo.

Who is the heir in Shona custom?

The heir takes up the dead man's name, place and duties at or after kurova guva and shares out his belongings. A widow was usually inherited by one of the dead man's younger brothers.

What does nevanji mean?

It is given as the term for an heir or successor. One Shona dictionary instead defines it as a family's first-born child, especially a son, the same as dangwe.

Hama dzedivi rimwe chete.

BabaBaba is the Shona word for father, and the same word is used for a father's brothers, for a spouse's father and, as a mark of respect, for any older man.SekuruSekuru means grandfather in Shona, on either side of the family, and the same word is used for your mother's brother.AmbuyaAmbuya means grandmother in Shona, the mother of either parent, and the grandmother was traditionally the family's teller of folk tales.BabamukuruBabamukuru is your father's elder brother, counted in Shona families as a senior father.BabamuniniBabamunini is your father's younger brother, counted in Shona families as a junior father.TeteTete is your father's sister, the aunt who counsels her brother's children, above all the girls, on conduct and marriage.

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