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• n  a village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa; usually surrounded by a stockade
• n  a pen for livestock in southern Africa

• When the Bothas took her back to the kraal for a visit, her old Zulu "mother" called her "Missie" (Mistress) and kissed her.
• In the British Crown Colony of Kenya, while 3,000 coal-black tribesmen, huddled in a kraal, watched in awe, a goat was slowly beaten to death and buried alongside a virgin ewe.
• The guests left their weapons outside the kraal with their women children.