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(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.
1967, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, A Grain of Wheat, EAEP, published 2008, page 4:
To reach his new strip of shamba which lay the other side of Thabai, Mugo had to walk through the dusty village streets.
