Before the country was colonised, chiefs used to put on animal skin regalia associated with royalty which colonialists changed when they enforced their dominance on Africans. The chiefs said a new traditional leaders' dress should not take them to the Stone Age but reflect Zimbabwe's diverse cult...
he remarked to me, “Mr. Cross, if you were to be able to choose to be colonised, you would never have chosen to be colonised by the Portuguese”. I think he was right. Just look at the example of Belgium in the Congo basin. A good description might be an era of rape and pillag...
Dog rabies was present in Zimbabwe during the 19th century, but had disappeared before European settlement in 1890. After a brief outbreak in 1902–1913 rabies was reintroduced via imported dogs in 1950, spreading to most areas of the country (Cumming, 1982, Foggin, 1988, Kennedy, 1988). To...
What we propose is such farmers should be compensated by the colonial legacy itself, and we know that the country that colonised us can easily mobilise financial resources to compensate those white farmers that fell victims to the social justice that brought our land back in the hands of the r...
the man who had freed him from Zwide but who was oppressive towards his own people, and chose freedom rather than being a better captive. The period in which we were colonised is 90 years compared to the many years we have been a country, two major Empires were based here and they bui...