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Chisi, A.
Italian
Italian
Chisi Island is a small island in the middle of Lake Chilwa. Lake Chilwa is the second largest lake in Malawi. The natives of the island have a wide knowledge of forest and lake usage. There are a few fortified sanctuaries built into the island's hills. Chisi Island is home to Mchenga, a large tree much wider than two humans standing side by side. Chisi Island is sometimes referred to as the most remote location in Malawi. A BBC reporter visited in 2000 and he found a tribe of people living in houses that float on reed rafts. Two thousand people lived like that and only a small number of them had ever been to the mainland. The two islands they used were Chisi and Thongwe Island. Cholera was endemic. A hospital had been constructed but it had not then been staffed. 3,500 people live on the island. In 2018 the Lake began to dry up. People who fished for a living and for subsistence turned to creating charcoal from the island's trees to make money as the lake receded.
Chitarman II
Indian
Chitra Ganesh
Chitra Ganesh
American
Chiura Obata
Chiura Obata
American
1885 - 1975
Chiyoko Tanaka
Choate, Florence
American
American, c. 1879 - 1967
Chôbunsai Eishi
Chōbunsai Eishi
Japanese
1756 - 1829
Chochola, Václav
Czech
Czech, 1923 - 2005
Parta hic ("The Hic Team") is a 1976 Czechoslovak film. The film starred Josef Kemr.
Choctaw