Shona (IPA: [ʃəonə]) is the name collectively given to several groups of people in Zimbabwe and western Mozambique. Numbering about eight million people, who speak a range of related dialects whose standardised form is also known as Shona. The International Phonetic Alphabet. ... hey nick ...
However, many black Zimbabweans do not self-identify as Shona, preferring instead to describe their origin in terms of their specific language/dialect group (e.g. Zezuru) or ancestry group (e.g. Rozvi). Ancestors of today's Shona groups are believed to have been the first permanent inhabitants of the region where the Great Zimbabwe site was later established, with archaeological evidence of Iron Age occupation in the 5th century AD. Sub-dialect of the Shona language. ... The large walled construction is the Great Enclosure. ...
Many of Zimbabwe's Shona sculptors attribute their ability to induction by a shave, a special skill or talent handed on to a Shona by members of his patrilineal fami1y or from an alien spirit outside of his lineage.
Shona ontology does not include the structured worship of spirits, and their presence is seldom recognised or observed from the occasional propitiation ceremony.
The importance of these beliefs to the Shona today is shown by the proliferation of independent churches in Zimbabwe which, taking a syncretic approach, have modified Christian forms of worship and doctrinal standpoints to accommodate Shona traditional beliefs with little or no conflict of interest.
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