Vadoma
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The Doma or vaDoma (singular muDoma), also known as Dema or Wadoma, are a band living in the Kanyemba region in the north of Zimbabwe, especially in the Hurungwe and Chipuriro districts around the basins of Mwazamutanda River, a tributary of the Zambezi River Valley. They are the only traditional hunter-gatherers indigenous to Zimbabwe and are famous for the inherited ectrodactyly existing among some vaDoma families at much higher rates than typical globally.
Key facts
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- Vadoma people with ectrodactyly
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- vaDoma
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- Zimbabwe
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- 22,000
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- Seventh-Day Adventist, African Traditional Religion
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- Dema, Korekore Shona, Kunda
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- Khoisan, Shona
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Language
- History
- Ectrodactyly
- References
The Doma or vaDoma (singular muDoma), also known as Dema or Wadoma, are a band living in the Kanyemba region in the north of Zimbabwe, especially in the Hurungwe and Chipuriro districts around the basins of Mwazamutanda River, a tributary of the Zambezi River Valley. They are the only traditional hunter-gatherers indigenous to Zimbabwe and are famous for the inherited ectrodactyly existing among some vaDoma families at much higher rates than typical globally.
== Language == The vaDoma speak the Dema language, which is closely related to the dominant Shona language of Zimbabwe and largely comprehensible to those who speak the Korekore and Tande Shona dialects. Living alongside Shona and Kunda people in Kanyemba, they also speak Korekore Shona and Kunda.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vadoma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.