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For the rights of women. now lets go back hundreds of years to the ancient ruined city of great zimbabwe. when colonial explorers discovered it in the 19th century, they insisted foreigners must have built. then, following zimbabwes independence, the country was able to reclaim its full heritage. our next witness, dr ken mufuka, was the historian tasked with rewriting the history books. this is one of the most remarkable sites in africa. these are the corridors of power of an ancient african civ...

The people that it were brown in colour. - they were a mixture of arabs and jews. l the europeans, they were going there to civilise africans who were in darkness, who had no history, so if they accepted that some of these africans had these wonderful civilisations, the reasoning would fall apart. on april the 18th 1980, zimbabwe became independent. it was a great moment for us. history became important. we were going to find a new identity by going into the past. i was the first black director ...

Not build the ruins. it belonged to the phoenicians, arabs, the queen of sheba — anybody else except the africans. it was the greatest civilisation south of egypt. it carried about 10,000 people so that was quite a large city. it was also a centre of religion and the economy of zimbabwe was there. it could be traced as far back as 1100. i was raised about ten miles away, i was obsessed with history, so i visited it as a child~ _ there was a bus to the great zimbabwe but this was for tourists. ...

We felt in some ways deprived of what belonged to us, that we belonged to a great people, but we are oppressed by the colonial regime. reporter: when europeans first saw great zimbabwe in the 1890s, - they could not believe that so imposing a structure could have been built by the ancestors of the africans they found living there. zimbabwe was not built i by either blacks or whites. the people who built it were semitic. - they were brown in colour— and were evidently a people who were a mixtur...

Built by the ancestors of the africans they found living there. zimbabwe was not built i by either blacks or whites. the people who built it were semitic. - they were brown in colour. and were evidently a people who were a mixture of arabs and jews. - the europeans, they were going there to civilise africans who were in darkness, who had no history. so, if they accepted that some of these africans had these wonderful civilisations, the reasoning would fall apart. on april the 18th, 1980, zimbabw...

Saida el gueyed, who continues to campaign for the rights of women. now, lets go back hundreds of years to the ancient ruined city of great zimbabwe. when colonial explorers discovered it in the 19th century, they insisted foreigners must have built it. then, following zimbabwes independence, the country was able to reclaim its full heritage. our next witness, dr ken mufuka, was a historian tasked with rewriting the history books. this is one of the most remarkable sights in africa. these are th...

Heritage. our next witness, dr ken mufuka, was a historian tasked with rewriting the history books. this is one of the most remarkable sights in africa. these are the corridors of power of an ancient african civilisation. this is great zimbabwe. everybody in power wants to control history because it brings them legitimacy. the europeans said the africans did not build the ruins. it belonged to someone else — the phoenicians, the arabs, the queen of sheba. anybody else except the africans. the ...

This and why do you think they would do that? >> not surprised, we will see if it actually happens, but chinas dirty little secret is they really liked us in afghanistan considering the alternatives because china, as has been widely reported, has more than a million muslims in reeducation camps, is what they call them, in western china. so far, a lot of muslims have not cared too much about this, persians and iran, arabs in the gulf dont seem to exercise but if there was a group of muslims who m...

Why do you think they would do that? >> not surprised, we will see if it actually happens, but chinas dirty little secret is they really liked us in afghanistan considering the alternatives because china, as has been widely reported, has more than a million muslims in reeducation camps, is what they call them, in western china. so far, a lot of muslims have not cared too much about this, persians and iran, arabs in the golf dont seem to exercise but if there was a group of muslimsy this and migh...

. while every country wants to avoid the war, a fraction of the palestinian arabs are done waiting for their own ending state. >> on the palestinian side there was the rising organization that was formed the early part of the 1960s that was meant to bring under the umbrella of the diverse palestinian movement that were taken matters to their own hand. the pillow is using the territory around israel to launch small military campaigns. i think ter terrorism is horrib. in november 1966, they laid...