Mashona
Americannoun
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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
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
I went off with the Mashona boy and the mules out of the way.
From Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales by Arthur Shearly Cripps
I had hardly completed my preparations when the little party arrived, and I had an opportunity to study the first Mashonas I had ever seen.
From Through Veld and Forest An African Story by Archibald Webb
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
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
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
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
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