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Chimurenga is a word in the Shona language meaning "revolutionary struggle" or uprising.
"Chimurenga" may also refer to:
Culture
- Chimurenga music, a Zimbabwean popular music genre
- Chimurenga (magazine), a publication of arts, culture and politics from and about Africa and its diasporas
Wars
- 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.
Other uses
- Third Chimurenga, sometimes used to refer to the land reform program undertaken by the Zimbabwe government since 2000
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