Shona /Ndebele Relationship Kimnanah53 | Chik Aljoy African Comedy

NDEBELE AND SHONA AT HOME I grew up in Harare formerly known Salisbury which is the capital city of Zimbabwe formerly known as Rhodesia in the surburbs of Hatfield then Avondale West. Life was lovely. I went to good schools and lived in lovely houses with my sweet parents and paternal grandparents for 5 years. The schools I went to had rules against speaking Shona which is one of the Zimbabwe veneculars on school grounds. The only time we spoke venec (slang for venecular) was outside of school.

He is correct. Shona is a colonial construction that was formalised in 1931 by South African linguist, Dr Clement Doke, who was hired by the Rhodesian government to create a common language for the black population outside of the Ndebele-speaking communities. It is an insult to be called Shona, and those who do so deserve to be called out. The term was never indigenous; it was imposed by colonial administrators to lump together diverse groups for easier control. We are Manyika, Zezuru, Korekore,

The Shona culture appears unified, but it's incredibly diverse. Subgroups practice customs very differently from each other, showing the richness of their heritage. #ShonaCulture #Zimbabwe #AfricanCulture #CulturalDiversity | Vlogger Zupa