Analysis - " . . . the indigenous people in Zimbabwe . . . while also venerating their ancestors, looked to a powerful deity known as Mwali, or Mwari, for rain, successful crops, and the health of ...

ZIMUNYA, Zimbabwe, Dec 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Under worryingly clear skies, men gathered amid sparse, drought-shrivelled trees at the edge of this remote village in eastern Zimbabwe to ...

The Modjadji royal family members perform rainmaking rituals every October to plead with their ancestors for rain.

Shaman 'rainmaking' center discovered in South Africa. Rising 1,000 feet (300 meters) ... Located in a semiarid area of the country, near Botswana and Zimbabwe, the site of Ratho Kroonkop (RKK) ...

Great Zimbabwe was a 720-hectare (1,779 acres) city that flourished between roughly the 10 th and 15 th centuries A.D. "Zimbabwe" is a Shona name that, while the translation varies, can mean ...

But as rainmaking makes a comeback in parts of parched Zimbabwe, scientists warn that such traditions may prove a distraction from more effective ways to deal with drought.

But as rainmaking makes a comeback in parts of parched Zimbabwe, scientists warn that such traditions may prove a distraction from more effective ways to deal with drought.

But as rainmaking makes a comeback in parts of parched Zimbabwe, scientists warn that such traditions may prove a distraction from more effective ways to deal with drought.