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Ndebele

(Encyclopedia)Ndebele mătəbēˈlē [key], Bantu-speaking people inhabiting Matabeleland North and South, W Zimbabwe. The Ndebele, now numbering close to 2 million, originated as a tribal following in 1823, when M...

Zambezi

(Encyclopedia)Zambezi zămbēˈzē [key], river, c.1,700 mi (2,740 km) long, rising in NW Zambia, S central Africa, and flowing in an S-shaped course generally E through E Angola, along the Zambia-Zimbabwe border, ...

Rhodesia

(Encyclopedia)Rhodesia: see Zimbabwe.

Southern Rhodesia

(Encyclopedia)Southern Rhodesia: see Zimbabwe. ...

Guinea, archaic term for Africa's west coast

(Encyclopedia)Guinea gĭnˈē [key], an archaic term for the west coast of Africa. In its widest sense it has been applied to the region from Angola to Senegal. Parts of the region bore names originating in early c...

Bulawayo

(Encyclopedia)Bulawayo bo͞oləwäˈyō [key], city, SW Zimbabwe. It is the second largest city of Zimbabwe and an ...

Kimberley, city, South Africa

(Encyclopedia)Kimberley kĭmˈbərlē [key], city, now part and seat of Sol Plaatje local municipality, Northern Cape prov., South Africa. Since the 19th cent. the city has been primarily a diamond-mining center, b...

German South-West Africa

(Encyclopedia)German South-West Africa: see Namibia. ...

Ghana, former empire, Africa

(Encyclopedia)Ghana gäˈnə [key], ancient empire, W Africa, in the savanna region of what is now E Senegal, SW Mali, and S Mauritania. The empire was founded c.6th cent. by Soninke peoples and lay astride the tra...

Union of South Africa

(Encyclopedia)Union of South Africa: see South Africa. ...