zariba

{{Short description|Fence made of thorns}}

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File:Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition (1890) (14780924081).jpg in Democratic Republic of the Congo during the time of Henry Morton Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition in 1890]]

A zariba{{cite dictionary |publisher=Oxford English Dictionary |title=Zariba |url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/zariba |access-date=2018-06-21}} (from {{langx|ar|زَرِيْـبَـة|zarībah|lit=cattle-pen}}) is a fence which is made of thorns. Historically, it was used to defend settlements{{cite book |last=Kelsey |first=D. M. |title=Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition and discoveries in the dark continent, with other matter from the works of his companions and predecessors |publisher=St. Louis and Philadelphia, Scammel & Company |chapter=XXVI:Stanley rescues Emin Pasha |page=737 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/stanleywhitehero00kels/stanleywhitehero00kels#page/737/mode/1up/search/zariba |year=1890 |access-date=2018-06-21}}{{cite book |last=Von Slatin |first=R. C. |author-link=Rudolf Carl von Slatin |title=Fire and Sword in the Sudan : a personal narrative of fighting and serving the dervishes, 1879-1895 |publisher=Edward Arnold |pages=65–324 |location=London |url=https://archive.org/stream/fireswordinsudan00slat/fireswordinsudan00slat#page/65/mode/1up/search/zariba |date=1898 |access-date=2018-06-21}} or property against perpetrators in Sudan and neighboring countries such as Chad and further south in Democratic Republic of the Congo.

An example would be as a pen to protect cattle and other livestock from predators such as lions, albeit often unsuccessfully.{{cite book |last=Pease |first=A. E. |author-link=Alfred Edward Pease |title=The Book of the Lion |publisher=Ravenio Books |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XHyIDQAAQBAJ&q=zariba |date=1909-10-16}}