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Zimba|ˈzɪmbə|
(A member of) an African people that was active in the vicinity of the Zambezi in the sixteenth century.
1901G. M. Theal tr. J. dos Santos in Rec. South-Eastern Africa VII. xvii. 291 Facing Tete on the other side of the river..there are two tribes of Kaffirs who eat human flesh, one called the Mumbos and the other the Zimbas or Muzimbas. 1913C. A. Stigand Land of Zinj i. 17 The Zimba, a powerful tribe of barbarians who lived N.E. of Tete on the Zambezi, are now first heard of in these parts. In 1588 they invaded Kilwa, and the next year passed up the coast and invaded Mombasa. 1968R. Oliver in J. Biggs-Davison Africa—Hope Deferred (1972) iii. 26 The Zimbas who swept up the east coast of Africa in the late sixteenth century. 1972Stand. Encycl. S. Afr. VI. 341/1 Mirale occupied Mombasa in 1589, but the Portuguese received unexpected help from the interior when the mysterious cannibal Zimba tribe arrived from the south, destroying Mombasa and most of its occupants. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XVII. 277/2 The Zimba..were followers of a Manganja chief living to the south of the Shire River. |