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Makonde may refer to:
- Makonde people, an ethnic group from East Africa
- Makonde art, the art of the Makonde people
- Makonde language, the language spoken by the Makonde people
- Makonde (District), a district of the Mashonaland West province of Zimbabwe
- Makonde, a plateau in the Mtwara region of Tanzania
Usage examples of "makonde".
Before Pierre slipped over the border into Free Mozambique with Frelimo guerrilla fighters to study the sociology of liberation among the Makonde people on the far side of the Ruvuma river.
Portuguese troops had been looking for in that Makonde village when they landed their Alouette.
So Pierre told about the Makonde people who straddle the frontier of Tanzania and Mozambiqueof the independent African republic, and the colony which the government in Lisbon insisted year after year was an integral part of metropolitan Portugal, using, as powerful arguments in their favour, Huey Cobra gunships, Fiat jet bombers, Agent Orange crop defoliants, and napalm raids.
A burly Makonde stood up to challenge him, and within thirty seconds Haradi, too, was dead.
She jerked and twitched and began crying out in her native Makonde tongue.
Makonde knew me as Bwana Mutaro, Master Furrow, for wherever I went my tusks would plow up twin furrows in the hard African earth, and my spoor could be mistaken for no other.