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What is an impi?

What is an impi? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A group of Zulu (or other Bantu) warriors; a detachment of armed men.
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The afternoon was now drawing towards evening, but still there were no signs of the impi.
On the 2nd of July an impi, 20,000 strong, advanced from Ulundi as if to attack.
Now after I had thwarted him in this matter of the sending of an impi to pluck the Lily from the gardens of the Halakazi, Dingaan learned to hate me.
Then an impi was sent to punish these women, and a great number were killed.
The bulk of the impi was in the background and beyond reach of the falling rocks.
Umslopogaas looked at the leaders of the impi and knew them for captains of Chaka.

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