1. Shona and Great Zimbabwe

2. Location: Zimbabwe &
Southern Mozambique

3. Languages:
• Bantu Family
• Include 5 language
clusters:
–Kore Kore
–Zesuru
–Manyika
–Nadau
–Karangua
United in early 19th century

4. Economy
• Agricultural
• Men & Women help on the farm

5. Gender Roles
• Men hunt and fish to
supplement the family’s
diet
• Women create and sell
baskets and pottery to
supplement the family
income

6. Political Systems
• National States led by a Head Chief who
makes important decisions & is paid
tributes
• Traditionally organized in small groups
– 1-2 elderly men & their extended families

7. Religion
• Believe in 2 types of spirits
– Vadizimu Spirits: ancestoral
• Ancient heroes/ recent ancestors
• All that is good in society
– Shave spirits:Wandering spirits
• Foreigners/ animals
• Inspire talent/ cause harm through witchcraft

8. Shona Built Great Zimbabwe
• Built in approximately 400 A.D.

9. Details
• Walled city
• Approx. 150 square miles
• Population : 18,000

10. Architecture

11. Aime Cesaire, Communist and
•
Negrity.
Other Important Books on the Anti-
Colonialism include
• W.E.B. DuBois' Color and Democracy
(1945) and The World and Africa (1947)
• Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks
(1952)
• The Wretched of the Earth. (1961)
• George Padmore's Pan-Africanism or
Communism?: The Coming Struggle for
Africa (1956),
• Albert Memmi's The Colonizer and the
Colonized (1957),
• Richard Wright's White Man Listen! (1957),
• Jean-Paul Sartre's essay, "Black Orpheus"
(1948),
• Their works were boosted by journals such
as Présence Africaine and African
Revolution.

12. Quote from Fanon; “The Wretched
of the Earth.”