Word: shona
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...Shona, the language of Zimbabwe...
...Cushitic or Semitic languages of the Horn; a specialist in Swahili who can handle some other important eastern-central languages of Africa (e.g. Kikuyu); a specialist in Hausa who can handle some of the important languages of western Africa; and a specialist in Zulu, Soth-Tswana, or Shona who can handle some of the important languages of southern Africa...
...African nationalists have long called Rhodesia. Among these, the best known-and probably the most moderate-is Joshua Nkomo, 59, who negotiated inconclusively with Smith for two months earlier this year. Another is Robert Mugabe, 51, a largely self-educated teacher, who is a member of the powerful Shona tribe (which makes up about 80% of Rhodesia's black population), and who has a wide following among Rhodesian guerrillas based in Mozambique...
Called to do the honors from the roadside restaurant he owns, Edward ("Lofty") Milton, 54, Rhodesia's part-time public executioner, was professionally incapable of understanding the commotion. While African women clustered outside Salisbury's Central Prison and uttered the mournful wail of the Shona tribe, "Wayehe, wayehe" ("Please, God"), Milton sprang the traps on the prison's gallows last week and sent three Rhodesian blacks spinning into eternity. Then, returning to the pleased white patrons of his Zambezi Valley café, he sent off a postcard to a friend: "Three in one this time." He signed...
...mother, in a flowing white robe, stood behind him chanting softly and clasping her hands. About them gathered a crowd of naked children, zoot-suited men and women in gaily-colored print dresses. Little Elias threw back his head and closed his eyes. "Hear my word!" he cried in Shona, a native dialect. "It was your fault, sinners, that our Lord died on that cross. He was nailed up there because you have been liars, thieves and adulterers before and after he went to his death. Repent, if he is to return to your hearts and homes...