The Shiri/Nyoni (Fish Eagle) which is known as Hungwe or the Zimbabwe bird a national emblem. Also called Shirichena (white bird) is a common totem of people who hail from the vicinity of the City Masvingo. It is sometimes called Mauruka (flying above) or Chasura chatibwege (the one that puffs or farts it’s dung in the air). This totem comprises of people who are well known for unity, they are not good individual fighters but crowd an enemy instead. They’re less brave, but believe in numbers. Their men usually are polygamous, believing in having many children as labour and security. They work very hard, but are not academically smart most of them.
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I am one of the Nyonis born & bred in Malawi and there are several of us here in Malawi. I wanted to know the full praise song for this clan.
ReplyDeleteI have a grandfather who came from Malawi, his name was Ndeule Nyoni, his son Getano Nyoni
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ReplyDeleteery common among ana wasu who keep their wives in rural manicaland.hungwes are a symbol of unity,trust hence a symbol of zimbabwe
Is the hunger totem related to the Chirenje please help or shade light if you can on the Chirenje totem..
ReplyDeleteThe manyoni /hungwe totem has intelligent people
ReplyDeleteYou can say that again
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DeleteCan anybody please shed some light on the history of the dove/pigeon as a totem of the Nyonis.
ReplyDeleteIt all started long ago when there were 4 brothers of the Hungwe totem, one of them moved to Zambia the other to Botswana another to Malawi and one stayed in Zimbabwe then the one who moved to Malawi started the Marunga totem / pigeon totem. I am from Marunga clan but I am leaving in Zimbabwe . My surname is Malunga . I hope this might help you
DeleteHaaaa believe me, we are that SMART, I repeat WE ARE SMART ZVEKUTODARO!
ReplyDeleteI agree with u ...we are very smart
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DeleteVery smart indeed tisu vana Chasura
ReplyDeleteAnd we are go getters hatitye kuita venture into different entrepreneurship nyangwe pakawoma sei that's my totem chasura manyoni
ReplyDeleteWats their women referred as
ReplyDeleteLet us formulate a group guys. Nyoni clan.
DeleteThats very negative what positive traits do we have acording to you .... it is the most generous and are not actually from Masvingo most of them reside in Chipinge and Chimanimani... and we are never broke i have actually seen a broke Mtetwa , very neat, very joyful, vry strategic .... I think you need to refocus your narrow perespective about other clans ... we are better than intelligent we have wisdom
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