After the decline of Great Zimbabwe, which had begun in the 13th century, the fragmented Shona tribes allied themselves and created the Rozwi state and encompassed over half of present day Zimbabwe. This state lasted until 1834 when it was invaded by Ndebele warriors and came under the rule of...
A History of Zimbabwe, 1890-2000 and Postscript, Zimbabwe, 2001-2008Chengetai J. M. Zvobgo
A survey of notable events and people in the history of Zimbabwe. The landlocked country is located in Southern Africa. Bantu-speaking groups have populated what is now Zimbabwe for more than 10 centuries.
Agriculturehas long been the backbone of Zimbabwe’s economy, with the majority of the population engaged in subsistence farming. The country’s fertile soil supports the cultivation of crops like maize, tobacco, cotton, and coffee. However, land reform policies in the early 200...
The Commonwealth is a a free association of sovereign states comprising the United Kingdom and a number of its former dependencies who have chosen to maintain ties of friendship and practical cooperation and who acknowledge the British monarch as a symbo
Zimbabwe is named after Great Zimbabwe, the twelfth- to fifteenth-century stone-built capital of the Rozwi Shona dynasty. The name is thought to derive from dzimba dza mabwe ("great stone houses") or dzimba waye ("esteemed houses"). Cultural and religious traditions among the Shona, Ndebel...
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Zimbabwe --- as viewed through western media --- is the story of a country that was once Africa's breadbasket and one of the most prosperous nations but which under the tyrannical rule of Robert Mugabe has now sunk into a basket case and human rights abuses, economic collapse, and corrup...
It was difficult in Zimbabwe: a history of imprisonment, detention and confinement during Zimbabwe's Liberation struggle, 1960-1980 B. 2008 . ‘“It was a Difficult Time in Zimbabwe”: A history of imprisonment, detention and confinement during Zimbabwe's liberation struggle, 1960–... M Mu...
In a slow but fairly steady process, one branch of Bantu speakers moved east toward the Indian Ocean and then south along the coast, and another moved more directly south-southeast into the Zimbabwe plateau and highlands of western Mozambique. The characteristic social unit was the extended ...