Taita

Excitedly, he called Taita over and showed him the wheel-marks left by a small division of chariots, ten vehicles by his reckoning, the ashes of the cooking fire, and the flattened earth where men had lain down to sleep with the horses tethered to the acacia trunks nearby.

Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001

Making Ethnic Ways: Communities and Their Transformations in Taita, Kenya, 1800-1950.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

On colonialism and African ethnicities more broadly, see (among others) William Bravman, Making Ethnic Ways: Communities and Their Transformations in Taita, Kenya 1800-1950 (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1998); John Iliffe, A Modern History of Tanganyika (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979); Leroy Vail, ed.,

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

There is a lot in this book, where any reader can get entirely lost, whether it be in the love between prince Nefer and his Mintaka, or the anxious deception concocted by Naja, or the great battles fronted by Nefer and controlled by Taita.

2010 April 03 « The BookBanter Blog 2010

In Swahili and Sabaki: A Linguistic History, Nurse and Hinnebusch propose that the PNECB homeland was likely within the area bordered by "Mombasa, the Taita Hills, the Pare Mountains, Dodoma, and the Rufiji River."

Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

Some 35 raptors are found in the Batoka gorge below the falls: Taita falcon Falco fasciinucha breeds there as do black eagle Aquilla verreauxi, peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus, augur buzzard Buteo rufofuscatus augur also black stork Ciconia nigra and African swift Apus barbatus.

Mosi-oa-Tunya Victoria Falls, Zambia 2009

Several of the areas endemic birds have very limited ranges; for example, the Taita thrush (Turdus helleri, CR) and Usambara akalat (Sheppardia montana, EN), occur only in a few square kilometers of forest in the Taita Hills and West Usambaras, respectively, while the Uluguru bush-shrike (Malaconotus alius, EN) lives only in a single forest reserve in the Uluguru Mountains.

Biological diversity in the Eastern Afromontane 2009

The Taita falcon Falco fasciinucha (scarce but widespread in eastern and central Africa) breeds in the gorges, as do black stork Ciconia nigra, black eagle Aquilla verreauxi, peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus and augur buzzard Buteo rufofuscatus augur.

Victoria Falls National Park, Zimbabwe 2008

Species with limited distributions include the Taita thrush (Turdus helleri, CR) and Taita apalis (Apalis fuscigularis, CR) which only occur in a few square kilometers of forest in the Taita hills.

Eastern Arc forests 2007

Three globally threatened species are also found in this ecoregion, including two vulnerable species, the Cape vulture (Gyps coprotheres) and the lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni), as well as the lower risk Taita falcon (Falco fasciinucha), which is threatened by pesticide use in northern Zimbabwe.

Southern Miombo woodlands 2007