Shona

expand_more Description

The Shona are Bantu-speaking peoples living primarily in Zimbabwe. Major cultural-linguistic subdivisions include the Zezuru, Karanga, Korekore, Manyika, Tavara, Ndau, and Kalanga. Each of these groups was semi-autonomous for part of their history, but also formed confederations of chiefdoms united into larger states. Traditionally cultivators and cattle herders, the Shona underwent significant changes in the colonial and postcolonial periods with expanding market forces, income from wage and salaried labor including remittances of migrants, land shortage, protracted civil wars, and political unrest.

Identifier

Region

• Africa

Subregion

• Southern Africa

Subsistence Type

• agro-pastoralists

Samples

• EA

Countries

• Botswana
• Mozambique
• Zimbabwe

External Links

• Shona (Ethnographic Atlas) D-PLACE