| NKOMO | Joshua, leader and founder of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (5) |
| SITHOLE | Ndabaningi ___, founder of the Zimbabwe African National Union who died in 2000 (7) |
| NANAK | Indian religious leader and founder of Sikhism (5) |
| PYGMY | Member of certain African peoples of very short stature (5) |
| BANTU | Group of African peoples (5) |
| SWAPO | South West African People's Organisation, founded 1960 (5) |
| MASAI | East African people's aim, as spelt out (5) |
| TEKOOTI | Military leader and founder of the Ringatu religion who led a mass escape of Maori prisoners from the Chatham Islands in 1868 (2,5) |
| ZANLA | Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army , org. |
| SHONA | African people's silence over North America |
| GURUNANAK | Religious leader and founder of Sikhism (4,5) |
| HIAWATHA | Native American leader and founder of the Iroquois confederacy immortalised by an 1855 epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| PENN | William, English Quaker leader and founder of a colony that later became a U.S. state (4) |
| KNOBKERRIE | Round-headed stick used as a club and missile by some South African peoples |
| SOLANKI | Who was the only player to make two 50+ scores in the Zimbabwe vs India T20I series? (7) |
| ZODIAC | Absorbing cricket match - openers from Zimbabwe, African champions, belt high above (6) |
| VIC | ___ Falls, on the Zimbabwe/Zambia border. (3) |
| ASSEGAI | Slender, iron-tipped hardwood spear mainly used by southern African peoples |
| KHOISAN | Non-Bantu indigenous South African peoples (7) |
| TSWANA | South African peoples having model with Aswan reconstruction |
