The
Chopi are an
ethnic group of
Mozambique. They have traditionally lived primarily in the
Zavala region of southern Mozambique, in the
Inhambane Province. They traditionally lived a life of
subsistence agriculture, traditionally living a rural existence, although many were displaced or killed in the
civil war that followed Mozambique's liberation from Portuguese colonial rule in 1975. In addition,
drought forced many away from their homeland and into the nation's cities.