Everywhere across Africa, Bantu languages are busy kicking around the word mpira — Swahili has it, Chichewa has it, Luganda has it, even Kinyarwanda calls it umupira. But Shona? Nope. Shona showed up with its own ball called bhora! ⚽ Why the difference? 👉🏽 The word bhora comes straight from the English ball (pronounced “bo-ra”), while most other Bantu languages borrowed mpira — a much older loanword that travelled through Swahili and Portuguese influence centuries ago. So when everyone else wa