kung'atuka

Zanaki

Noun

kung'atuka

1. the act or process by which the social status of Zanaki men changes every generation (every twenty to thirty years), with older men retiring and making way for younger men
2. (by extension, politics) retirement (of an older person) from political power

References

• Otto Bischofberger, The generation classes of the Zanaki (Tanzania) (1972), page 39