Mashona
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Mashonas,
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Mashona
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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
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
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
The picturesque granite hills of the Matoppo and Mashona ranges often attain an elevation of forty-five hundred feet.
From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Anna B. Badlam
Some Mashonas have told me that they believe that the spirits of their departed relatives enter the bodies of animals, particularly those of lions.
From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Robert Hamill Nassau
The Matabele impis would not forgo their old habit of raiding amongst the Mashonas.
From Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies by George Henry Blore
Two territories, Matabeleland, ruled by Lobengula, and Mashonaland, inhabited by the Mashonas, who were to all intents and purposes vassals to Lobengula, were the prize portions.
From An African Adventure by Isaac Frederick Marcosson
The funny thing is that this fellow is really the god of the Mashonas, yet the Matabele put absolute faith in him.
From The Claw by Cynthia Stockley
Shortly after followed the sharp, dissonant yells of the Mashonas from their hut, fifty yards distant.
From From Veldt Camp Fires by H.A. Bryden
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