Archival Significance
Compiled by Desmond Dale, a Jesuit priest, through the same Literature Bureau and Mambo Press partnership responsible for a substantial share of Zimbabwean vernacular-language publishing held elsewhere in this Archive.
Institutional Context
Published by Mambo Press in association with the Literature Bureau, Gweru. The item held reflects a printing after the 1975 first edition, reprinted 1979 and later.
Content Summary
Provides a basic bilingual English-Shona dictionary.
Research Utility
A significant reference source for researchers of Shona lexicography and of the Literature Bureau’s role in standardising vernacular-language reference materials.
Abantu Archives Note
Held in-house.