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The name Chimurenga is coined from the great ancestor of the now Shona, Venda and Kalanga people.The Nambya people are also a part of this group. Their ancestor was known by the name Murenga Musorowenzou (Head of an Elephant), known by the Venda as Thoho yaNdou and Sholo reZhou. [2]
The Rhodesian Bush War, also known as the Rhodesian Civil War, Second Chimurenga as well as the Zimbabwe War of Independence, [11] was a civil conflict from July 1964 to December 1979 [n 1] in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe-Rhodesia and now Zimbabwe).
It was also during the period from 1976-77 that Jonah started specializing in mbira music (Turino, p. 300). It was the authenticity of his chimurenga sound that prompted Thomas Mapfumo to disband his Acid Jazz (with the exception of guitarist Leonard Pickett Chiyangwa) and approach Jonah in 1978 to reform the Blacks Unlimited.
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First Chimurenga, an 1896-1897 war fought by the Matabele and Shona people against the British South Africa Company Second Chimurenga , a 1967-1979 war fought between the white minority-led government of Rhodesia, the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army, and the Zimbabwe African People's Union.
These guerrilla armies proceeded to wage what they called the "Second Chimurenga" [n 2] against the Rhodesian government and security forces. The resulting conflict, the Rhodesian Bush War, began in earnest in December 1972, when ZANLA attacked Altena and Whistlefield Farms in north-eastern Rhodesia. [11]