Gokomere

The ancient people who inhabited the area of Great Zimbabwe in about 500AD and probably built the complex between 1000 and 1200 AD, the Gokomere traded via ancient trading routes over the Chimanimani mountains on the current Zimbabwe / Mozambique border with the Swahili civilization on the Kenyan and Tanzanian coast. This group gave rise to the maShona and the waRozwi tribes. They probably also gave rise to the Lemba people, who claim descent from the ancient Jews via Sena in Yemen. The modern descendants of the waRozwi are called the baRotse tribe. Gokomere also refers to a school located close to the town of Masvingo. They speak Karanga language and second languages like English in Zimbabwe and Sena, Ndau dialect of Shona, and Portuguese in Mozambique.