Visiting Great Zimbabwe: The Ruins Colonialism Denied
Visiting Great Zimbabwe: how a medieval African trading capital became the centre of a decades long colonial lie, and what the ruins reveal today.
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Visiting Kolmanskop: Namibia’s Diamond Ghost Town
In 1908 a railway worker found a diamond in the Namib sand. Within decades, the boomtown built on it was abandoned to the desert.
Visiting Robben Island: Nelson Mandela’s Prison
Visiting Robben Island: how a place built for 400 years to isolate the unwanted became the site where Nelson Mandela and South Africa's democracy took shape."