Shona

(noun)

A group of Bantu people in Zimbabwe and some neighboring countries. The main part of them is divided into five major clans and adjacent to some people of very similar culture and languages. They created empires and states on the Zimbabwe plateau. These states include the Kingdom of Zimbabwe (12th–16th century), the Torwa State, and the Munhumutapa states.

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Examples of Shona in the following topics:

  • Great Zimbabwe

    • However, the most popular modern archaeological theory is that the edifices were erected by the ancestral Shona.
    • Around 1430, prince Nyatsimba Mutota from Great Zimbabwe traveled north in search of salt among the Shona-Tavara.
    • The end of the kingdom resulted in a fragmentation of proto-Shona power.