Many people do not know this but Shona is the most spoken L1 Bantu Language; that is as a first language. According to Wikipedia, there are over 535 Bantu Languages spoken from Cameroon, Southeast ...

What is the Shona name for a ‘honey badger’? Or the Shona words for the number 10,000? Or how about the other way; how many Shona speaking people reading this know what a mhumhi is? I bet less than ...

A distressed young mother recently posted a message on her Facebook page asking for help with her son's Shona homework. To use her words, she said, "I can't even understand this language. It doesn't ...

Anyone wishing to learn Zimbabwe's main language, Shona, now has a new option - the Shona podcast. Si and Cecilia - the Richard and Judy of Shona podcasting A podcast is basically a radio show that ...

The expression: “No man is an island unto himself”, is equally true of language. All languages develop alongside other neighbouring languages and more quickly as a result of colonisation. As speakers ...

Hellenic school on Friday held its Shona Cultural Day aimed at promoting Shona culture and its people. Hellenic is the ideal school where Zimbabwe meets Greece. In this well supported event the pupils ...

Most Zimbabweans fondly talk of Lomagundi Road, but do not know that the word Lomagundi is a mispronunciation and misspelling of the word Nemakonde by the white colonialists. Nemakonde is the name of ...