How Africans Built The Great Zimbabwe Empire🇿🇼 

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You did justice to our history African Zimbabwe culture built by shona people

This is so very impressive Maya!! Even more impressive after learning all the challenges you faced in Zim! Keep striving! The work is not easy, but the end result blesses thousands and is a part of the foundation you are building. 1❤️

The drone footage that made u see flames 👐💔Look at you . Patients pays👌👌👌👌

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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 come to Ghana or Togo or ivory cost and see what is call real buildings

​@@richardatu3611 Can Ghana and Togo come close to South Africa

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@@richardatu3611 I live in ghana ....worked in Southern Africa construction before....Truly ghanians need to learn good building practices

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Thank you so much. I will definitely listen to it. I love Caribbean music, reggae, calypso , soca, etc. I dream of coming to Trinidad and Tobago for carnival to experience the steel pan music in person. Just like our own indigenous instruments it really fascinates me. It's a symbol of our ingeniousness. We are definitely not what the European said we are.

Thank you and God bless☺️🙏🏾

Very true...thank you

Because Africans built it and they cant get credit, no matter how hard they try. That's why they keep re writing African history, hiding the majority of history and renaming the names of African history.

Solo traveler from America traveling to Zimbabwe in December!❤

It’s a Divine Calling❤️

@@WODEMAYA True it's a calling

@@WODEMAYA many have been called but only a few can answer, you did my home proud. It’s going to be in the history archives forever ♾ recorded by our own

You are a Legend broo

Nice voice😀

Great work Kwame.

Great work. Keep it up

Nice work brother..

Love love love from Africa

Thank you Debbie!!

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Glad you like it!!!

@@WODEMAYA the reason that whites came to Great Zimbabwe in 1800 is they believed that Zimbabwe was the Ophir that is the source of the Biblical King Solomon's gold. The great Zimbabwe bird is the fish eagle. Great Zimbabwe was a trading post were we traded gold copper and ivory and we traded with swahili traders and portuguese. Great Zimbabwe was never colonised except for a 100 years 1893 to 1980 .this was predicted by a Zimbabwean prophet called Chaminuka

Wangu magetsi aya🔥

I cried, this was so emotional and made me wonder why we as African are still fighting each other instead of uniting and building a round hut in unity around our beloved continent. Now is the time to grow and develop Africa 🙏🏾Maya, thank you for showing our great land of Zimbabwe 🇿🇼

That’s great to see such a video from Wode Maya on the Great Zimbabwe monument

Yes please🤗As an African American I want to learn about African history from Africans

Anybody been to Europe America or even Asia and look around when you see Africa you can tell Africa empty. That's because there was so much genocide. I'm not even trying to stir nobody up or make nobody hate it's just the truth and there was so much genocide and that's why these these beautiful countries is empty. Africa is not overpopulated it's underpopulated. with their governments later on and they don't want black Nations to own anything. There was people that mixed with mortar but they're probably gone you know a lot of culture is lost in so many people died scientists doctors there's languages that are lost pretty much I believe the borders are fake there's a lot of research to be done to make Africa whole or heal again. Well anyway stay blessed I enjoy the channel.

May I add that I don't think Egypt is more important than no other African country when Egypt tries to say that their water was not Ethiopia's water I was on Ethiopian side. What it is is that a lot of racist say that the Egyptians were were not African and I always stick to the truth and say that they were then the ancient days and you know pretty much all of North Africa but do I think North Africa is better or more important than southern part absolutely not but you do have a great point and a lot of the beautiful countries are in South West Africa and East Africa too yes absolutely we need to see a lot of more stuff on West Africa. One thing I haven't seen in African RU-vidr do and I really want them to do really bad is go on a research documentary experience project about the great bending wall I want them to go all out and look at the Great beaning Wall look at all the research I would love to see a documentary about the great bending wall and Benin City from somebody's perspective from West Africa.

The Egyptians were also Black indigenous Africans. The autosomal YDNA of Pharaoh Tutankhamun and Ramses iii links them strongly to Southern, central and then West Africans. This is why they never test Royal mummy DNA. Look at depiction of King Amenhotep iii, and Queen Tiye (Grandparents of KingTutankhamun). All Black people.The book : 'linguistic ties between Ancient Egyptian and Bantu ' is a must read for any African. Our ancestors who built the Pyramid of Khufu, went south and their descendants built Great Zimbabwe. Herodotus the Greek in 400 B.C wrote of 250K soldiers rebelling to serve the Kushite Kings and the Roman Pliny writes that they left Sudan to start Kingdoms further South. Onto of that, all Bantu mythology states that the ancestors came from North Africa. North Africa was a Savannah until 5000 years ago conical, so it makes sense that Black people are indigenous to North Africa too. The Great Zimbabwe conical tower is an obelisk, the Zimbabwe bird is Horus (Heru), the Egyptian bird of heaven and Kings; no different to the Hungwe of Shona/Karanga people. Even the word Pharaoh (Pa oro) means 'Great house' just like 'Imba horo/Zimbabwe'. It's so blatantly obvious when you know what you are looking at in African history and cultures.

@@amenhalleluyah1111 North Africa is were all our ancestors were when the Sahara was a Green Savannah 11.5k-4.5k years ago. There is evidence of West Africa, Central-Southern and Eastern African ancestors in the same place around mega lake Chad. The culture they created was called the dotted wavey line pottery culture. The earliest to make pottery. The produced the earliest mummies such as Uan Muhuggiag boy. Watch 'Mystery of the Black mummy of the Sahara'. As the Green Sahara dried, the moved south in all directions arriving in West Africa and the Nile Valley alongside the Nilotic people later known as Nubians. The ancient Egyptian language is strongly Bantu. Book: 'Linguistic Ties Between Ancient Egyptian and Bantu '

Haha we had to cut so many things out

@@WODEMAYA I understand. But I think thid deserved an full 1 hour video😂😂😂

I strongly agree the video was too short am requesting for another one.

@@teacherchamu4212 it feels like it was a trailer😂😂😂

@@WODEMAYA wode find below information researched by colonisers but makes a visit to Matopos interesting also is unbelievably similar to other religions like christianity Shona myth of how Mwari / God created Earth Mwari drops man from the sky A myth from the Shona people in Zimbabwe, collected by Harold Scheub, professor of African languages and literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Scheub is author of "A Dictionary of African Mythology" (see bibliography.) Three Christian converts. Courtesy Africa Focus (c) 2000, University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents. Mwari, the supreme being, is the god of fertility, the sower, the rain-giver. One of his praise names is Dzivaguru, great pool, because he supplies the people with rain. Mwari is both male and female. As a female, Mwari is merged in the pool with its darkness and mystery; this is the god of below. As a male, Mwari is owner of the skies, the god of light, the father of creation who manifests himself in lightning or the shooting star; this is the god of above. He is an ambivalent god, both immanent and transcendent. He is ever present in his own creation.  Mwari put his creation, Musikavanhu, into a deep sleep and then let him drop from the sky. While he fell, Musikavanhu awoke and, in the distance, saw a white stone which was also dropping from the sky at great speed. God ordered Musikavanhu to point a finger at this stone. Musikavanhu obeyed, and the stone stopped. Musikavanhu began to fly towards the stone, and the closer he got to it the bigger the stone became, and finally he could no longer see where it finished on either side. Musikavanhu fell softly onto the stone, and the first spot his feet touched softened and emitted water. Touching the stone, Musikavanhu heard God's voice coming from it.  This place became the stone of the pool, today called Matopos, a place that is venerated. Musikavanhu, bored, began to wander about. When night fell, he sat down near the stone from which God had spoken, and slept. In a dream, he saw the birds in the air, and many animals on the earth that were jumping from stone to stone. When Musikavanhu awoke, he was surprised to see that all he had just dreamt had become reality. God told Musikavanhu what he was allowed to eat, and what food was forbidden. He was free to eat vegetables, and fruit from the trees, but not to kill and eat animals. Nor were the animals allowed to eat each other.  One day, while Musikavanhu slept, a snake crept over his loins and left its marks. When he woke up, he was overcome by a strange feeling; he had trouble breathing and his penis moved like a snake. A voice told him to go to the pool, and the pain would pass. On his way there, he saw a beautiful young woman sitting on a stone near the pool. She looked like him, but she could neither speak nor move. Again, Musikavanhu heard the voice; it told him to touch her with his hand. He did, and the young woman came to life, and a snake moved across her loins, too. She was overcome by the same emotions as Musikavanhu. The voice spoke and told Musikavanhu to be kind to his wife, and to all the animals too. He was also to set aside one day a month for the honor of God. When Musikavanhu had completed the tasks set by God he had to return to heaven. Before he went, he told his children to observe God's laws, or God would punish them.  People lived in peace for a long, long time. One day Musikavanhu's children got drunk and became proud. They told the animals and the other people that God was dead and that one of them would be God. God's voice warned them, but because of their pride they could no longer hear it. God then became angry; he cursed the earth, and the sea's water became salty, the land dried up and thorns grew. During the rainy season, the rivers swept away many people, and crocodiles appeared in the waters. The sun became hot, and the animals began to eat one another and attack men. And men started killing each other.

You are the first person to say this for sure our country has a spiritual connection but the leadership yooh

Come on now, Pythagoras theory is Kemetic System

@@ckazruddy6796 I know that, but my point is we were thought that all those mathematical theories were invented by the Greeks not knowing that all those formulas were stolen from the motherland and the European gets all the credit. If you think Pythagoras theory you think a Greek philosopher not an African, hence the reason why we should begin to educate our children about some of this things instead of indoctrinating them

We learnt about it even about the Mutapa i guess it depends on which school u went to.... our form 1 nd 2 of African history we learnt of the Mutapa. (Great Zimbabwe). Rozvi, Ndebele nd Zulu empire

@@toribabe1000 remember am from the western part of Africa. They do not teach us about anything East, North or South. We came to know the struggle about apartheid through a movie called SARAFINA. I personally learned many other things through reading books and RU-vid videos like this

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Greetings from Ghana

Thanks for watching my masterclass

@@WODEMAYA Anytime 👍🏾

U r our sister

@@mike-waynedjangoii6971 sure Brother

Apart from when he said Massvingo instead of Masvingo

He is on another level.

And yul be surprised he is one of the very least paid and unrecognised

@@jumanji7629 Bad apples like you are found everywhere, adding too much salt to the meat already cooked by someone.

@@victortakunda5443 mai vakono

He is amazing

@@WODEMAYA great Zimbabwe was ruled by the munhumutapa empire . When you get to Harare look up the monomatapa hotel it is built as a curve almost replicating part of the great Zimbabwe enclosure. The khami and Dhlodhlo ruins were centres for subsequent empires such as the Butua state. Lets give them their true terms. It is the great Zimbabwe palace , the dhlodhlo palace and the khami palace

The guy narrating shud be paid well by our government bt they will be jealous of the youth as usual

The narrator really loves what he does....kudos

@@jumanji7629 Bad apple you are here 🤔🙄

Walking through these stone monuments in Zimbabwe (and there are many) evokes so much spirituality. You should look up Matobo Hills, another World Heritage Site full of mystic. We like to call them the spiritual heart of Zimbabwe as there's evidence that they have been occupied for over 500,000 years!

Very true.. The rivers, the caves and even the mountains have an aura about them.

Did you know there are more structures like this around the world .. makes you wonder where our people really started or how much influence we may have on world’s history

Not really sure europeans are envious of a few drystone wonky walls built in the middle ages at a time that europeans were building majestic gothic cathedrals and a thousand years after roman architecture. Egyptian architecture is mesmerising because of ifs age. This is embarrassing because of ifs relative modernity and primitive design

@@johnsmith-eh3yc I think what stands out about this is the fact that these walls were built without motar. The tallest ones being around 10 metres and still standing intact almost 10 centuries later. Thats what fascinates about it.

We will one day claim what belong to us

If only we believe in ourselves

Fam😅😅💀 stop being obsessed with Egypt. Now everything has to be a pyramid

Africa is surely rising, and like China before it, was looked at with disdain for so long. We are coming back strong ❤️✌🏽💕💪🏾❤️

you should realize that the US need Africa more than Africa needs the US. The world has learned well (from Russia) that those with the resources and raw materials have more power than those users who need them (industrialized countries whose industries are made from those resources and materials). Africa should start dictating their terms and sanctions those countries who bully them by NOT supplying to those countries. But first, some African countries still need to get rid of the claws of their colonial masters and declare their own independence.

They did, I nearly swore!

@@ashleymukarali4852 Well said .

It has begun

@J. V. Isaacs. Glad to know you are interested in African history. I heard of some diary entries done by a Portuguese trader who visited Great Zimbabwe in its heyday. It's not highlighted because it would distort the history according to the colonisers' narrative of it being foreign built. Btw, I visited the Grand Bahama in 2019 and was surprised when at the market. I could swear I was back home an African market. We really are one people.

@@africanadage852 Very early good morning, African Adage, I live in New Providence. Strangely enough, under British Colonial rule, my Jamaican aunts, and uncle, learnt of Mighty African Empires from The Royal Reader, a text book all children who attended Primary Government Schools in the British Empire used. I suppose I began attending private schools at a younger age, so, I never used that textbook, therefore, missed that knowledge. At my high school, in the 1960's, in Jamaica, I did learn West Indian History, and Geography. This is lacking today. At the University of the West Indies, I was lucky that, the Scholars in the Dept. of History studied history from a Socio-Economic Perspective, and, from the perspective of the Colonised. From as far back as the 1930's, West Indian Scholars, studying in England, and France, used the original documents, written at the time the events took place, to write accurate versions of our history. The Hon. Marcus Mosiah Garvey, of Jamaica, in the early 1900's, was responsible for spreading knowledge of the greatness of Africa, and Africans. I encountered his works whilst at university, as, I did of J. A. Rodgers, a Jamaican, who carried out reasearch on Black History, all over the world, for about fifty years, and, published numerous books of his findings, at his own expense. I am a voracious reader.

The Greeks & Romans definitely were white invaders who came to learn from the Africans in Kemet; then later began destroying the place. Greeks & Romans are the ones who practiced pederasty and the rest.

@J. V. Isaacs please may i have your twitter handle I'd like to follow you. Thanks for your interest and in learning our African history. I'm Zimbabwean and reading your comments and brief history as you put it in the comments i got reminded of one Walter Rodney whom i read two of his books - How Europe Underdeveloped Africa and The Groundings With My Brothers

@@Flaviogee Good morning, Tatenda, thanks for your flattering words. I do not have a blog, and, as an extremely lazy person, have e-mail, and WhatsApp, only. Walter Rodney, and I, both attended the same institution, and

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We are a resilient people and that country is very spiritual and the ancestors are back.

African tribes had a single language of symbolism (apart from their respective languages) which united them and they did greater things in the ancient times but when this language was confused by the ancient enemies they scattered everywhere and no longer understood each other. The ancient enemies saw that Africans would not have been able to be conquered as they are today if they had not brought confusion early enough to the language of symbolism that united them.

Read about the Berlin Conference from 1884-1885, which was about the Scramble and Partitioning of Africa, and you will be greatly enlightened.

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Thank you Wode Maya these was such a eye opener Zimbabwe is so beautiful i could have never imagined🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦😊

It's not easy to visit African countries.

@@1nesoch Its very easy to visit Zimbabwe, many tourists i.e. about 150 000 every year, from all over the world come to see the Great Zimbabwe Ruins every year.

@@victortakunda5443 exactly! !

You can say it I cry as well.I am happy for the next Generation they are not going to be manipulated force us to learn falls History Wake up Africa

It's time to demand them back

Team work

Thank you. We will get there as Zims

@@GrumpyTinashe Why are you grumpy nhai Tinashe😁

@@misstinafz Lol ma sanctions ati kuwadza Sisi🤣😆😁Zviri sei

@@GrumpyTinashe Ha bho hangu! don't worry sha zvinopera you will soon be HappyTinashe 😁🙌🏾

@@misstinafz I hope so. I'm tired being in diaspora 😭😡Are you in Zim

Zi(Great) mba(house)bwe(stone).that's already the case in the Shona language. It would come out as Great Great house in the end

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Hmmmm Is there any Zimbabwean who believes that though

We were always taught that they were built by our ancestors. I haven't heard the theory they were built by the queen of Sheba

@@kiwigirl359 same here I don't know where Zviko grew up

As a Zimbabwean, i would like to categorically say that me and the other 99.9% never head of that story from any Zimbabwean, but from the colonizers who wanted to discredit us as the builders of those ruins. Kwana iwe.

@@victortakunda5443 the kwana iwe part😂😂😂😂