The true story of Great Zimbabwe

The true story of Great Zimbabwe:

The true story of Great Zimbabwe

23/09/2011 00:00:00 by Prof Innocent Pikirayi

FOR many centuries, researchers have failed to agree on who built the Great Zimbabwe in Masvingo. The debate was reignited last week by the release of a confidential United States embassy cable of a January 2010 conversation between the American envoy, Charles Ray, and his Indian counterpart, Ashok Venkatesan. According to Ray, Venkatesan told him that Zimbabweans did not know the real origins of the Great Zimbabwe ruins “which were here when the Shona entered from East Africa and settled on land that was essentially vacant”. Archaeologist Innocent Pikirayi has arguably spent more time researching the history of Great Zimbabwe than any other living individual. Continue Reading...