*”Shona-English Name Dictionary” by Eliah Chakanetsa Kapezi, as the title suggests, is a compilation of Shona names with their meanings translated into English. Only those names easily translatable ...

Although a lot of people might not know this Google has had Shona support for years. Support for the Shona language was added to the translate tool just under three years ago back in February of 2016.

If you’re on Twitter, you might have come across Tweets with users questioning what Google translates before translating a local language like Shona to English. If you’re in the camp that’s not at all ...

The Shona people of Zimbabwe are somewhat peculiar, especially when it comes to their adoption of English words, which are not names, for use as names. When the British colonised our part of the ...

Mabasa’s prose brims with poetry, satire and linguistic play. Its cadences are deeply rooted in the Shona idiom.