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Jabo (pronounced ,〔The name has the default tone of the language, tone "2", here unmarked.〕 variant spellings ''Dyabo'', ''Djabo'') is the self-designation of an ethnic group located in the southeastern part of the Republic of Liberia in West Africa. They have also sometimes referred to themselves as Gweabo 〔SNG, S&B〕 or Nimiah tribe.〔WPA, (A ):"Ancestry --Negro- () group- Nimi'ab tribe." While at the University of Nebraska, he apparently gave people to understand that his tribe was called Nimiah: "One of these students, Charles Blooah, was born in Africa, a member of the aboriginal and cannibalistic Nimiah tribe of Liberia. At the age of 14 he fled from his tribe in order to escape becoming its king. By 1936 his advancement in education in this country, beginning as an illiterate savage, had reached such a standing that the University of Nebraska awarded him a fellowship In the department of social science." In "The Negros of Nebraska -- The Negro goes to school". URL accessed 2006-04-26 (). (Blooah died in Colorado, USA, in 1978, a lifelong Methodist.)〕 English speakers also use the name of the group for a single member of that group, or for their speech variety. ==Tribe== Like many of their neighbors in the area, the Jabo have very pronounced ethnocentric attitudes,〔ETH〕 and are frequently referred to both by themselves and by others as a ''tribe'', a term that in Liberia has a meaning imprecise at best. Confusion may arise due to the circumstance that in Liberia the English word "tribe" is also sometimes applied to the second-order administrative "districts," which are not necessarily congruent with "tribes" defined in local ethnotaxonomic terms. "Tribe" is also occasionally used for a third-order administrative "clan" when the latter comprises multiple ethnic clans, as well as for a variety of other more or less ad hoc groups.〔For a discussion of the use of the term "tribe" in Liberia see (EveryCulture ) and also (GlobalSecurity )〕 The Jabo describe themselves as a "confederation of tribes.", or even "a nation".〔WPA, p. 1: "My tribe in Liberia was known as the Djabo Confederacies."〕 〔WPA, p. 2: "So as a result the first family groups formed themselves into Gentile (clan ) group, the Gentile groups into tribes, the tribes into a confederacy, and the confederacy into a nation which we call ---The Djabo."〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jabo people」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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