Mashona
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Mashonas,
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Mashona
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noun
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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 great tribal wars to the southeast between the Mashona and the fierce Matabele were only a distant rumbling.
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
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
We camped out close beside it, two Mashona boys who had come to seek their fortunes in Bulawayo, and Edgar and I. When the morning light came I was up.
From Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales by Arthur Shearly Cripps
There was a sound of firing at the little tree; and the cry went round the camp, "The Mashonas are releasing the spy!"
From Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner
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
I glanced at the three Mashonas by the fire.
From Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales by Arthur Shearly Cripps
Some forty miles beyond Gwelo there is a mountain called Iron Mine Hill, where the Mashonas have for generations been wont to find and work iron.
From Impressions of South Africa by James Bryce, Viscount Bryce
For a hundred years before the white settlers came, the Matabeles and the Mashonas raised live stock.
From An African Adventure by Isaac Frederick Marcosson
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