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Dzitsinya

Ewe · Ewe / Ghana, Togo · Concept

Ewe word for conscience, often a guilty or troubled conscience. Westermann (1905) glosses dzitsinya as 'conscience, mostly a bad conscience' and gives it as a synonym of dzimegbe, 'the voice in the heart'.

Dzitsinya refers to an uneasy conscience.

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