African:Zimbabwean History from Iron age to Scramble for Africa.How to answer O level Historyquestions and more
It has been argued that Ethiopia survived as an African State because, by the Wichale Treaty of 2 May 1889 between Emperor Menelik and Count Autoneko. She had become an Italian protectorate. Article III of the treaty was in a sense the legal birth certificate of the Italian colony of Eritrea, because it defined for […]
The Niger Delta is a complex system of rivers and creeks through which the Niger River flows to the sea. The interior of the Delta was inhabited by 160 stateless societies.
The people of Bunyoro originated from the areas of the Sudan and they were the Southern Nilots and the Luo and they were driven to the south by the stronger groups for example the Nilo- Hemites. It is here in the lakes region that they were driven so that they conquered the indigenous inhabitants and then set up the Kingdom of Bunyoro-in the interlacustrine region.
There is so much accuracy in the statement that regardless of its loopholes, oral tradition remains an integral source in recovering Zimbabwean history before Friday 12 September 1890. Oral tradition refers to the verbal transmissions of information from generation to generation.
The entrenchment of iron technology in Zimbabwean societies before 1450D had both positive and negative effects as it transformed the societies’ socially, economically and politically. Some of the changes brought about include but are not confined to; division of labour based on sex, development of social classes, revamping of agriculture, trade, mining and raiding as well as development of states.
The view that the Khoikhoi economy was more diversified than that of the San is greatly convincing. The Khoikhoi people refer to the immediate successors of the San who lived in the Zimbabwean plateau. It is true that the Khoikhoi means of survival was more sophisticated and complex than that of the San given that it was multi-faceted and varied featuring; livestock production, viable crop production, improved mining, external trade and revamped hunting which was evidently absent in San communities.
The Land Reform Program has been a one of contention among many scholars with some calling it a continuation of the liberation struggle all so known as the Third Chimurenga, while others are calling it a political gimmick.
The Rozvi state
Nguniland is the region between the Indian ocean in the east and Drakensburg mountains in the west. It also extends from the Tugela river in the South to the Pongolo river in the North. There were many Nguni groups before the Mfecane wars.
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