but this was for tourists blacks were not allowed there. but we d just turn up and if there s no white visitors, you can wander about. the structures are massive. the stones are chiselled to be exactly the same size, and they are not connected by mortar or cement. we felt in some ways deprived of what belonged to us, that we belonged to a great people that were oppressed by the colonial regime. file footage: when europeans first saw great zimbabwe - in the 1890s, they could not believe that so imposing a structure could have been built by the ancestors of the africans they found living there. zimbabwe was not built i by either blacks or whites. the people who built it - were semitic, they were brown in colour and were evidently the sabaean people, - who were a mixture of arabs and jews. i
we felt in some ways deprived of what belonged to us, that we belonged to a great people that were oppressed by the colonial regime. file footage: when europeans first saw great zimbabwe - in the 1890s, they could not believe that so imposing structure could have been built by the ancestors of the africans they found living there. zimbabwe was not built i by either blacks or whites. the people who built it - were semitic, they were brown in colour and were evidently. the sabaean people, who were a mixture of arabs and jews. the europeans were going there to civilise africans, who are in darkness, who had no history. so if they accepted that some of these africans had these wonderful civilisations, the reasoning would fall apart. on 18 april, 1980, zimbabwe became independent.
to be exactly the same size and they are not connected by mortar or cement. we felt deprived of what belonged to us and we belonged to a great people but we were oppressed by the colonial regime. when europeans first saw great zimbabwe in the 1890s, they could not believe that so imposing a structure could have been built by the ancestors of the africans they found living there. zimbabwe was not built i by either blacks or whites.