| LUNDA | A Bantu language spoken by a people of the same name in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (5) |
| STAPLE | A basic food item that is chiefly consumed by a people (6) |
| LILAC | A pale violet or lavender colour evocative of a fragrant flower of the same name in the olive family (5) |
| KAMBA | A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya. |
| CHAGA | A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania. |
| DURANGO | Mexican city located in the south central part of the state of the same name in the fertile valley of the Sierra Madre Occidental (7) |
| KICHAGA | A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania. |
| ELIZABETH | This US actress plays a character of the same name in the NZ film A Mistake, - Banks (9) |
| SWAHILI | Bantu language spoken by over 150 million people (7) |
| EBOLA | Deadly fever, named after a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, resulting from a viral in |
| OKAPI | Giraffid artiodactyl mammal native to the Ituri Rainforest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| SOTHA | A Bantu language spoken in Zimbabwe (5) |
| SHONA | A Bantu language spoken in Zimbabwe (5) |
| CHANT | A repetitive plainsong, such as that in the Gregorian manner; or, a repeated rhythmic slogan, sung or spoken by a crowd in unison (5) |
| MAORI | Member of a people of the island country where birds including the kea, kiwi and weka are endemic (5 |
| TRIBE | A group of people of the same language, race or customs (5) |
| CHINA | Language spoken by a neighbouring country (5) |
| TURIN | Capital city of a province of the same name in Piedmont, Italy (5) |
| MOCHA | Dark strong- tasting coffee originally shipped from a Red Sea port of the same name in SW Yemen (5) |
| MASAI | A people of the Rift Valley area of Kenya and Tanzania (5) |
