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230:"In our Mashonaland there is no single race and language which is definitely representative of the whole area. There are, instead, a large number of small tribes or clans, and almost as many divergent dialects. Any individual will declare himself to be of this or that clan and a speaker of this or that dialect. None calls himself Mashona and there is at present none who will say that his speech is Shona. You will find that he speaks CiUngwe or CiJindwi and belongs to the Ungwe or the WaJindwi. Either of these may claim to be Manyika and to speak CiManyika, but they know nothing of a Shona race or a Shona language. . . . In the various districts you will find that the lesser divisions are already able to recognize themselves as included under one or other of four or five principal groups, such as Karanga, Zezuru, Manyika, Ndau, Korekore. The process of unification has, in fact begun . . . neighbouring sub-dialects under the main dialects." 192:, past the Bvumba mountain range, through Burma Valley, Chitakatira, Dowa, Chitaka, Chitakatira, Rowa, Chinyauhwera, Munyarari, Mambwere, Mpudzi, Chimhenga, Chipendeke, Bwizi, Chitora, Gutaurare, Muromo, Masasi, Mukwada, Kusena, Chakohwa, Chiswingi, Chiadzwa, Mufusire heading southward to Wengezi, reaching towards Birchenough Bridge, sharing the border with Mocambique in the East, waBocha People under Chief Marange, waUngwe People under Chief Makoni, as well as the waHera in the west, the Ndau People to the south, with the Manyika People under Chief Mutasa to the north of Mutare. (Zimunya's pre-colonial eastern boundaries stretched into modern day Mocambique). 238: 25: 122: 297:
The same desire to separate Mutasa off from neighbouring peoples can be seen in the early district reports from Umtali in which Native Commissioner Hulley spelt out that the three chiefs in the district, Mutasa, Maranke and Zimunya next hit, were of quite distinct origins, even if there was a popular
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The language spoken by the aJindwi is called chiJindwi (also referred to as CiJindwi in certain texts). chiJindwi continues to be spoken today, despite ill-conceived attempts by the then colonial regime (through Missionaries) to replace it with the language of chiManyika as well as to re-identify the
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indigenous people with a new identity the oppressors originated, crafted and called "Shona", as quoted by B.H. Barnes in the book 'The progress of the new Shona orthography', Native Affairs Department Annual, No. 12 (1934), referenced in "The Creation of Tribalism in Southern Africa".
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The indigenous population continues to live on farms and communal land along the length and breath of the Chiefdom, characterised by well watered mountain ranges, valleys, rivers, dams and forests, rich in flora growing in the richest soils in the region.
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In 1934 the Anglican missionary B. H. Barnes illustrated the situation with reference to language and ethnicity by taking the examples of the peoples of Chief Makoni of the Ungwe and Chief Zimunya of Jindwe:
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As a result, chiJindwi is often incorrectly referred to as chiManyika or classified as a dialect of chiManyika, and yet chiJindwi has a unique origin, tradition and culture linked to its people.
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lies Zimunya Town within the Zimunya communal lands. This community is surrounded by the Bvumba Mountain range (
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Zimunya stretches southward from the present day City of
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Paramount Chiefdom in Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe
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19°06′04″S 32°37′23″E / 19.101°S 32.623°E / -19.101; 32.623
Paramount Chiefdom
Manicaland Province
Zimbabwe
Mutare
Mutare
Bvumba Mountains

"Zimbabwe's chiefs revive tradition to save the country's last pangolins"
The Creation of Tribalism in Southern Africa
University of California Press
"ZIMBABWE NATIONAL WATER PROJECT – ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIAL MANAGEMENT PLAN (ESMP)"
"Land, power and social relations in northeastern ZImbabwe from precolonial times to the 1950s"
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Planning for the Future: Exploring Possibilities of Using Indigenous African Languages as Official Languages of Instruction in Education


The creation of tribalism in Southern Africa

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