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What is a shamba?

What is a shamba? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (East Africa) An area of cultivated ground; a plot of land, a small subsistence farm for growing crops and fruit-bearing trees, often including the dwelling of the farmer.
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He teaches the boys how to manufacture marketable items from banana leaves of the shamba.
There were several South African families of Boer descent, and a German couple called Gaitsche, who ran a shamba outside the mine, where we could buy vegetables for the table.
The produce from the participant's shamba was considered as part of his emoluments.
The water is only one kilometre from our shamba.
In the mid-sixties, increased agricultural production from smallholdings, created by splitting larger farms, reduced vegetable prices and had an adverse effect on the income from the shamba system.
On the other hand, the creation of settled communities has created problems of transport as the distance between village and shamba has increased.

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