A seme, simi or ol alem or Njora is a type of dagger or short sword used by the Maasai and Kikuyu peoples of Kenya in East Africa.
They have a distinctive leaf-shaped blade, with a relatively rounded point. Scabbards are generally made of wood covered with rawhide, and dyed red.
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Further reading
- George Cameron Stone, Donald J. LaRocca, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: in All Countries and in All Times, Verlag Courier Dover Publications, 1999,
- Nick Evangelista: The encyclopedia of the sword, Verlag Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995,