Mashona
Americannoun
noun
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Not since the Matabele and Mashona uprisings against Cecil Rhodes' white settlers in the 1890s had Rhodesian whites felt so threatened.
From Time Magazine Archive
The great tribal wars to the southeast between the Mashona and the fierce Matabele were only a distant rumbling.
From Time Magazine Archive
Samuel Songo, a Mashona tribesman of Southern Rhodesia, has a left arm that is like a magnificent piece of ebony sculpture.
From Time Magazine Archive
With ties to both the minority Matabele and majority Mashona tribes and a solid political organization all over Rhodesia, Nkomo seems well placed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here they discovered two little Mashona boys, Blachland’s servants, who were hiding in terror.
From The Triumph of Hilary Blachland by Mitford, Bertram
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