Editing Ubantu:Contents:Culture:Societies (section)

====Zimbanje====
The Zimbanje Society is devoted to the collection of knowledge. They have libraries and universities throughout central Ubantu. Zimbanje himself invented written language and record the first verse of what became the Masafu ya Kidini. These days Zimbanje Wafuasi are interested in everything except religion, which they leave to the scholars of the Kanisi. This Society is very wealthy - they have no compunctions about charging for access to their knowledge, but they tend to use the money well, in copying books, building libraries and financing research. The Zimbanje Society is multiracial - they actively recruit foreign scholars, and such are generallly granted amnesty. There are Wazimwi, !Tsharg, Bushmen, Simbrimu, and Misambwe scholars, along with not a few Wazungu and numerous Dzedzeta ghosts and other spirits. Zimbanje scholars use a form of book sorcery based on their "perfect" tomes, written by famous Sages, rather than the Masafu. Becoming a Sage is purely posthumous - there are WaZimbanjeji sorceror-scientist who pour over old books, reading select paragraphs aloud in search of that magical resonance that indicates potential.