Tag: Zimbabwe

The current situation of Zimbabwe (the new name assumed on April 18, 1980 by Southern Rhodesia) is characterized by a phase of transition from tribalism to a more modern form of socio-economic organization. The country is populated by the two large ethnic groups of the Ndebele (or Matabele) and the Shona (or Mashona), who increasingly…

Its old name of Rhodesia derived from Cecil J. Rhodes, one of the main architects of British imperial expansionism in southern Africa, while the new one, sanctioned with the acquisition of independence, recalls an ancient and powerful African kingdom, of which the grandiose granite constructions known as the ruins of Zimbabwe remain as testimony. Thanks…