Zembe

The hills of Zembe stand in the country between the eastern highlands and the Buzi valley. Stone enclosures and pottery found here belong to the Zimbabwe tradition, whose builders raised walls at a number of sites across the region. Zembe lay within the wider world of the Tewe, or Quiteve, a Shona-speaking people whose rulers and customs were described by the Dominican João dos Santos in the early years of Portuguese contact with southeastern Africa.