African fetish contains its defence system (7)
I believe the answer is:
jujitsu
'defence system' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how one could define the other.
'african fetish contains its' is the wordplay.
'african fetish' becomes 'juju' (I've seen this before).
'contains' is an insertion indicator.
'juju' enclosing 'its' is 'JUJITSU'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for jujitsu that I've seen before include "Jap. unarmed combat" , "Samurai's unarmed self-defence martial art" , "Japanese martial art" , "Japanese method of unarmed self-defence" , "Self-defence system" .)