Zimbabwe Flashcards
official name
Republic of Zimbabwe
capital city
Harare
Independence
18 April 1980
president
Emmerson Mnangagwa
flag
green yellow red black red yellow green horizontally with a white flag on the left and a red star behind the golden bird
when — first encountered—…
When Europeans first encountered the Great Zimbabwe Kingdom in the 16th century, they refused to believe that Native Africans built such a civilization
the Great Zimbabwe Monument
was constructed between the 11th and 14th centuries by the indigenous Shona People
the monument is testament to
the ancient African civilisation that existed before colonisation
In the monument, there were
a series of cultural artefacts, including soapstone bird carvings, each known as the Zimbabwe Bird
The artworks were
pillaged and sent to museums across Europe
who took some of the stone-carved birds to South Africa
American coloniser, Cecil John Rhodes
were the birds returned
four were returned in 1981, a year after Zimbabwe gained its independence
a part of one of the birds
ended up in the hands of a German missionary
what did the German do with it
sold it to the Ethnological Museum in Berlin, 1907
The museum finally handed back the piece to Zimbabwe in
2003
