You need to be careful not to characterise Lobengula as having been the king of what is now Zimbabwe. While his raids, as a militaristic power, covered much of what is now Zimbabwe, his actual administrative area, was limited to the South Western part of Zimbabwe. The rest of what is Zimbabwe today was under other monarchs, largely of from the various Shona ethnicities, that make up the majority of the Zimbabwean population
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You need to be careful not to characterise Lobengula as having been the king of what is now Zimbabwe. While his raids, as a militaristic power, covered much of what is now Zimbabwe, his actual administrative area, was limited to the South Western part of Zimbabwe. The rest of what is Zimbabwe today was under other monarchs, largely of from the various Shona ethnicities, that make up the majority of the Zimbabwean population