impi — English Dictionary

Noun

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

   Examples

   And in the end he, as well as three of his four children, shared Retief's fate in the massacre of Trekkers by the Zulu impis of Dingane.

   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.