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‖ shamba E. Afr.|ˈʃæmbə|
[Swahili.]
A cultivated plot of ground. Also, a farm or plantation.
1878H. M. Stanley Dark Cont. ii. 51 But the highest ambition of a Mgwana [freeman of Zanzibar] is to have a house and shamba or garden of his own. 1901Geog. Jrnl. Nov. 551 The greater number of whom [manumitted slaves in East Africa] have settled on ‘shambas’ upon conditions entered into with the Arab cultivators. 1942E. Afr. Ann. 1941–2 17/2 They are to be found in every kind of work..from shamba labourer to school teacher. 1952Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 247/1 There would be rain soon and the ground must be ready for planting before it came. There were two shambas to be cultivated, one for millet and one for beans. 1973Reader's Digest Feb. 200/1 Most Kenyans, for example, have shambas (small farms) back in their tribal homelands. 1980Times 23 Feb. 6/2 Jos had pegged out several acres to turn into a coffee shamba. |