Mashona
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Mashonas,
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Mashona
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noun
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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
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
Different views were also held by the judges with reference to the condemnation of the goods aboard the Mashona.
From Neutral Rights and Obligations in the Anglo-Boer War by Robert Granville Campbell
The Matabele impis would not forgo their old habit of raiding amongst the Mashonas.
From Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies by George Henry Blore
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
I glanced at the three Mashonas by the fire.
From Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales by Arthur Shearly Cripps
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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