The present website contains many links to texts of books of articles available on Tatashikanda's (Professor Wim van Binsbergen's) other websites. When creating this special Nkoya website, it was not practical to upload all these materials once again in the present domain. Therefore, when opening these external links you are leaving the present website. After downloading and viewing these external  texts, hit the 'Back' button of your Internet browser in order to return to the page in the present website from which you opened the link. 
   Many files made made available from this website are of the PDF type. They can be viewed with Adobe Acrobat, which is freely available at: Acrobat Reader. If you find you still cannot handle PDF files (e.g. because you are working from a cyber café), send us an e-mail specifying which file you cannot read, and we will see if the same file may be made available here in an html or unformatted TXT version.
   Since the documents made available from the present website have not been uploaded in this domain, an internal site search facility here would not help you to find and use the many detailed discussions of aspects of Nkoya culture and history, including personal names, names of clans, streams, places, titles, regalia, artefacts, customs etc. For this purpose, use the powerful internal search engine on Tatashikanda's Shikanda portal (near the bottom of the opening page), where nearly all Tatashikanda's Nkoya materials are to be found.
   Illustration: a Nkoya king's drums photographed at Kazo stream, 1977
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