ABSTRACT
The Shona are a congeries of Bantu-speaking tribes living immediately south of the Zambezi in the greater part of Southern Rhodesia and in Portuguese East Africa. They were never integrated into a single nation, but many of them were loosely united under the dominant Rozwi, and from the standard works of Bullock and Posselt, and from information on specific tribes, there appears to be a sufficiently marked cultural as well as linguistic uniformity to distinguish them from the neighbouring Nguni and Sotho of Southern Africa as well as from Bantu tribes north of the Zambezi. Inevitably in a brief survey such as the following, details and variations of custom are omitted, and a more uniform picture is presented than actually occurs.
