impi

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A group of Zulu (or other Bantu) warriors; a detachment of armed men

But as grizzled as Chief Joyi often seemed, the decades fell off him when he spoke of the impis, or warriors, in the army of King Ngangelizwe.

A body of Kaffir warriors; a body of native armed men