Zimbabwe
Facts, researched articles, and events related to Zimbabwe, drawn from the Provenance Africa archive.
Researched Articles
- Why Some of the World's Most Expensive Mobile Data Is in Africa (Article)
- Rhodesia's 1965 UDI and Pan-African Protest Against White-Minority Rule (Article)
- Robert Mugabe: Liberation Leader, Zimbabwe's Founding Prime Minister, and Authoritarian Ruler (Article)
- Mugabe Tells CNN's Amanpour Land Reform Was 'the Best Thing' for Zimbabwe (Article)
- Victoria Falls: The World's Largest Sheet of Falling Water, Renamed by a Man Who Didn't Find It (Article)
- Zimbabwe's Hyperinflation: The First of the 21st Century, and the Economists Who Had to Reconstruct Its Real Numbers (Article)
- Lake Kariba, the Colonial Dam That Displaced 57,000 Tonga People (Article)
- How Africa's Literacy Rates Actually Rank, According to UNESCO (Article)
- Great Zimbabwe: The Medieval Stone City and the Fight to Credit Its Builders (Article)
- Zimbabwe's 1980 Independence and Bob Marley's Harare Concert (Article)
- Zimbabwe's November 2017 Coup: How the Military Removed Robert Mugabe (Article)
- The Mutapa Empire: Great Zimbabwe's Successor, and a Size Claim Historians Still Dispute (Article)
From the Archive
- Robert Mugabe's 1961 interview. When Zimbabwe was still Rhodesia and roughly 20 years before he became Pres…
- Being interviewed by CNN's Christian Amanpour, former President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe defends his land…
- Simon Mann, the Eton-educated former SAS officer who led the 2004 attempt to overthrow Teodoro Obiang in Eq… (2025)
- An interesting story: This was how Col. Mengistu, who strangled Emperor Selassie to death and butchered a m…
- The great Bob Marley passed on to glory on this day, 40 years ago, 11 May 1981 at the young age of 36. 1980…
- President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe, then Minister of State Security, talks about imposing sanctions o…
- On 19th May, 1986, the South African apartheid Government breached territorial sovereignty and conducted ai…
- Sibusiso Moyo, the Zimbabwean general and foreign minister who announced the 2017 military takeover that en… (2021)
- BREAKING: : Daniel Dumile, also known to all Hip-hop heads as MF DOOM—rapper/producer noted for his tradema…
- Strive Masiyiwa, Zimbabwean billionaire has become the first African to be appointed to Netflix Inc. board.…
- Former Zimbabwe President, Robert Mugabe, in this 2011 UN General Assembly, blatantly calling NATO—France,…
- African Powers Ranked by Military Strength: 1 Egypt🇪🇬 2 Algeria🇩🇿 3 SA🇿🇦 4 Nigeria🇳🇬 5 Ethiopia🇪🇹…
- In 1891, Lord Randolph Churchill—father of the renowned former UK PM Winston Churchill—visited present day…
- When Bob Marley came to Harare, Zimbabwe (1980) for the independence concert, he first took a 143-km trip t…
- Having earlier highlighted the events preceding her independence, Zimbabwe finally became free from minorit…
- Zimbabwe turned 40 today! Events that led to her freedom from white minority rule: 1979: Lancaster House Ag…
- The Life and Times of Robert Mugabe, former President of Zimbabwe. Here he delivered this memorable speech…
- Thousands of Zambians demonstrating against the Sharpeville massacre and the UK for aiding and abetting the…
- President Emmanuel Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe has just renamed 10 roads in each of Zimbabwe provinces, including…
- Uganda's Idi Amin pushed to get Africa to jointly mobilise their military for possible invasion of aparthei…
- When we cared about our sister countries... Ghanaian women in 1965 protesting against the British for allow…
- In view of the news that former President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe has passed on, here's a throwback, a r…
- In 1971 apartheid SA, Portugal and Rhodesia formed "Alcora", a secret military alliance to fight African fr…
- Scoring infrastructure in Africa, 2018. Only Maroc, Egypt, SA, Mauritius and Seychelles reach the global av…
- We remember Herbert Chitepo, who led the ZANU liberation movement that militarily sought to oust racist whi…
- Anti-colonialist Kaunda, founding President of Zambia, stung racist Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), led by Ian Smith,…
- Our hearts go out to our brothers and sisters who lost sons, daughters, parents and friends to the devastat…
- Happy Birthday to Zimbabwe's former President, Robert Mugabe, who turns 95 today. Was born on this date in…
- Happy Birthday to Bob Marley, who would've turned 74 today! His influence around world through his music wa…
- Corruption in Public sector measured in Sub-Saharan Africa (2018). 1 Seychelles 2 Botswana 3 Cabo Verde 4 R…
- Rest in Peace to Zimbabwe Jazz legend, Oliver Mtukudzi; such a devastating loss for all of us. We lost toda…
- Robert Mugabe, the guerrilla leader who became Zimbabwe's prime minister and then president for a combined… (2019)
- Oliver Mtukudzi died at a clinic in Harare at 66, after years of treatment for diabetes. Zimbabwe declared… (2019)
- Callistus Ndlovu, Zimbabwean academic and politician, died. (2019)
- Skyline of the city of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe in the 1930s and in 2018. Interesting watch...
- Despite having the best climate for it, only 3 African countries have legalised the growth of marijuana, al…
- The inspirational story of Zimbabwe’s Dr Tererai Trent. No grass-to-grace story out there is more worthier.…
- Mobile internet data are the most expensive in the following African countries: Equatorial Guinea $35.47 (f…
- Aside from building a home for ANC activists in Morogoro, Tanzania, President Nyerere in 1965 boldly suspen…
- These are the African countries with the highest number of active tech hubs: South Africa 🇿🇦 59 Nigeria �…