Zimbabwe's largest indigenous community, the Shona, speak Bantu and number roughly 9 million.
Southern Africa's Zimbabwe, Botswana, and southern Mozambique border South Africa.
Zimbabwe's Shona ethnicity dominates culture with 80% of the population.
Korekore, Zeseru, Manyika, Ndau, and Karanga are the five Shona languages.
The Ndebele arrived into western Zimbabwe in the 1830s and absorbed the last of these clans.
Shona artists live in isolated settlements with one or more senior males and their extended families.
Despite organised political states' centralised control, most decisions are made within the family.