The Wall

Early Bantu-speaking communities, stone building origins, and pre-agricultural settlements across the Zimbabwe plateau.

The Mutapa state, Great Zimbabwe, gold trade with the Swahili coast, and early Portuguese contact.

The Rozvi Mambo state, Ndebele migration, and the decline of the Zimbabwe plateau kingdoms.

Missionary activity, the Pioneer Column, and the establishment of British South Africa Company rule.

The First and Second Chimurenga, spirit medium resistance, and colonial land dispossession.

The liberation struggle, ZAPU and ZANU formation, UDI, and the road to independence.

Independence, Gukurahundi, land reform, economic crisis, and contemporary history.