A reply to a note about the author's paper on the Azande. The Zandi* whose homelands lie within three modern African states (the Republic of Sudan, Zaire, and the Central African Republic), constitute a large and complex mixture of ethnic groups distinct in origin, united by culture and, to a large extent, political institutions and by language. Because they originated in kingdoms founded by conquest, however, some scattered enclaves of former peoples still speak their native languages.