 Welcome to Zimbabwe, the house of stone, known as Zimbabwe. Where you find beautiful animals, excellent and traditional cuisine, beautiful women, handsome men, and with over 16 official languages. The population of almost 15 million Zimbabwe is beautiful. With a roaring thunder, the Victoria Falls, which is one of the largest waterfalls in the world. Can you imagine this? Well, let's take you on a tour. Welcome to Zimbabwe. It's my first day in Zimbabwe and to be honest, the beauty of Zimbabwe really shocks me. Walking in the streets of Zimbabwe makes me feel like everywhere in Africa is home for Africans. And I'm not here to lie to you that Zimbabwe is perfect, but I'm here to let you know that Zimbabwe is not what you think. We are in Harare, yes? Yes. And this place is the house of stone. Yes. So we just want to welcome you all to Zimbabwe. Yes, I am. Can we all say welcome to Zimbabwe. This is the majestical city of Zimbabwe sitting pretty right over there. I know you're shocked. You are not at fault. Even me, when I got here, I was super shocked to see that Harare is this beautiful. Why are you guys not telling us that Zimbabwe is this beautiful? I feel like I need to blame the people of Zimbabwe for not telling your own stories. It's okay. I'm going to forgive you because I am here. I want to let you know that Zimbabwe is world-developed. Zimbabwe is not what you think. I cried when I was walking in the city of Harare. You know why? Because what I read on the internet, they told me that there are not even good roads in Zimbabwe. But it was shocking to see wide roads in the city of Harare. It's really shocking to see wide roads in Harare. I feel like this city really represents the Africa that you don't see on TV. I think I underrated Harare. I was not expecting this beauty. You know, it's actually very beautiful. Now, before I left for the UK, things have changed. We have one-way streets and like you said, the roads are really wide and it's very easy to travel here. I want to tell you guys something. One thing I have noticed in Harare is that it's a mixture of colonial buildings and contemporary buildings. Absolutely. You've seen that too, eh? Yes, but you see that comes from us being colonised by the British. So that's how you're seeing these people. And because you said you were colonised by the British, I want to tell you something. I mean, correct me if I'm wrong. If you have been to Lusaka, Nairobi, even Accra, you will see that we have similar streets in here. I mean, so many places that have been in Harare looks like Lusaka and it looks like the CBD of Nairobi. Have you ever been to Harare? Have you ever been to... Are you living in Lusaka or you're living in Nairobi? Just let me know with the shots that you see right now. There's no difference. Maybe it's a footprint of the British. It's so pretty, man. I mean, let me know in the comment section, yeah? Did you ever expect that Harare would be this beautiful? Let me know the perception that you had about Zimbabwe before this video. I have been exposed to the beauty of different African countries, but to be honest, yeah, Harare is a discovery. Wow. Brothers and sisters, welcome to the capital and the largest city of Zimbabwe, Harare. In Samora, Michelle, right now, one of the major streets in Harare, and in this street, you find the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and the National Parliament offices. You also have our beautiful Mbuyanihanda statue that was installed recently. This statue has a fun fact. It rotates 360, having a view of every single part of this beautiful city. Come on now. Our ancestors are always completely looking over us. I really love the fact that Samora Michelle also has Zimbabwe Woman's Bank that's also located in this street. It's so busy that during traffic hours, though, you really can't stress us about it, but it's so beautiful and we love to see it. To be honest, yeah, Harare is an extremely modernized man and something that is modernized always looks beautiful. And I know you are amazed that the girl said the major road in this country is named after Samora Michelle, who is a Pan-African leader from Mozambique. I've never seen anything like that before. Have you? I just love the Pan-African spirit in Zimbabwe. You know why? Because in Zimbabwe, one of the major roads is also named after the legendary Kwamin Krumah. To the extent that I saw a mall in here called Kwame and as a Ghanaian, I felt so proud. But not just that, we've got Julius Nyeria from Tanzania streets in here. We've got Kenneth Kawinda from Zambia streets in here. We've got Nelson Mandela from South African streets in here. And the man of the land needs to put his name on the street to welcome to the home of Robert Moagabi. Thank you. We have fought for our sovereignty, small as we are. We have won our independence and we are prepared to shed our blood in sustenance and maintenance and protection of that independence. So today we are symbolically in a place called Unity Square. The surprising thing or hidden thing is it's actually designed the same way as the union check or the British click. It was these roads and these ones and these these two roads. It's actually like the union check. If you check the union check, that's exactly the shape of this place, the Africa Unity Square. That's a fact that I didn't know. Thank you. This is the highest point of Harare. And this is the point from which the name Harare comes from because there used to be a man who used to stand here and he used to overlook the whole of Harare and he would be looking out over this land and at that time it was the land of Chiefen Bari. And so when the enemy would approach they would always find this guy up. They would always find this guy ready. They would always find this guy having alerted the soldiers or the warriors to be prepared for the attackers. They would come, they would go back. They would wait for night time, they would come, he's there. They would come in the morning, they would come in the day, they would come on Monday, they would come when it's cold and you'd be there. And that's when they said that guy doesn't sleep which means Harare. That's how Harare got its name from this hill. You understand? Zimbabwe is not the story. And let me tell you, you saw the interesting things when we came up. Yeah. You saw that we saw soldiers along the way. Till today, Harare still exists. And even at night the city of Harare never sleeps. Hello. For calling Mugabi's son. No. They thought you are the real son of Mugabi. No, no, no. They didn't know that because you are from Zimbabwe that's why I call you Mugabi's son. No, no, no. We don't have any relations with the late presidents. Yeah, but that's what you used to call me in China. Exactly. Because that's the only thing I knew about Zimbabwe. Yeah. But you are now here. Exactly. You are finding more. How are you finding the city? How are you finding Harare? Listen, I never knew Harare is this beautiful. Yeah. I think Harare is one of the most underrated cities I've ever been to. Can you believe that? How so? How so extreme? No, listen. This city is quiet and calm. Right? This city, I feel like it's a combination of the natural environment and modern facilities. Do you know why? Why? Because listen, if you go to certain countries, you don't even see trees. But there are trees everywhere in Harare. Yeah, yeah. I think the city fathers have tried to preserve that side of town. And they are heavy fines if you are seeing chopping trees and they are actually encouraging people to even plant more trees. More trees? Yeah. That's amazing. Yeah, but then here is something you have to know. It's not... Harare is not all about this side. Okay. There's also the bustling side. Wow. The hive of activity. I'll take you the downtown Harare where all the hustling trading and then, you know, but all the small to medium enterprises, people who are just doing business and it's just bustling. So it's not all... Harare is not always this calm. I have to take you to the other town. That is the part of town that I really want to see because I feel like this place is more like kind of calm and chill. It's my kind of place but there's no money at this place. Yeah, yeah. It's not that there's no money. It's more commercial. So you've got your offices. You've got your... your commercial offices. You've got your government offices here. Okay. And, you know, like other international companies here. But then at the side, that's what you have, like, you know, the hive, the activity of the town. I really need to take you guys there, man. Let's go check it out, man. Of course. We have to. We take it out, definitely. This is the downtown of Harare. Wow. It's way more bustling as you can see. I feel like this place is full of life, man. Yes, of course. Because a lot of people are doing business. So you find that there are people selling their different ways. For example, electronics, you can get gadgets, TVs, bicycle parts, car parts. Name it. Uniforms, protective wear. So this is a very, very busy part of town. Does it mean that everything that you're going to get here will be affordable? Mostly because a lot of people from even just outside of Harare also come here. Oh, wow. They buy stuff and then go and sell it there for a profit. So there's really a dollar to be made. I feel like it's overcrowded, man, because, like, everyone is here. No, but being overcrowded also means good business. So it means that a lot of business is happening here. You know why Tony is saying that? Because he has a shop in here. He's making all the money. He's making all the money in Harare. And this shop is right here, bro. I'm surviving. I'm surviving. That's all I'll say. I'm surviving. I've got to put his Instagram. If you're interested in buying any electronic gadgets, buy from a guy, man. Please. Yeah, you've got more small older players. Oh, so these are like SMEs, like small-scale businesses and all of that. Exactly. Man, I mean, this is the place I need to spend your money. Whenever you come to Harare, I think it's always good to come and spend your money in here because these are the real hustlers. Exactly. These are the real hustlers who are working hard for their money. Yeah. That's amazing, man. In this video, I'm only focusing on Harare. What makes this beautiful city so unique from any other city in the world? Yes, it's a world-class city. But listen, when most of you got to know that I'm going to Harare, most of you thought I'm going to trade my toes for rituals. No, that is not true. Something like that is not happening in Harare. It was just a joke that escalated to the rest of the world. So since I'm here, I'm just going to let you know that that is not true. Coming from Ghana, it's everywhere that when you go to Zimbabwe, you can actually cut your toes and make a lot of money for you to buy cars. But apparently, you're the one who started it. Yes, I'm the one who started it. There's nothing like cutting toes and making money here. Nothing like that. Nothing like that. Yes. That was the full statement. Can you apologize to the people of Zimbabwe for what you've crossed out there? Yes, yes. I apologize to my nation Zimbabwe for the statement I say about the toes. Forgive me. I was a joke that day. It was a joke. It was a joke. Not true about the toes. It was a joke. Beside the city of Arari, I found a unique and interesting building that I think you all need to know about. It's also very interesting about this building. It's based on a termite mount, which means it cools itself. So it's quite interesting that using nature to inspire the building. So this is one of the buildings that I think is very, very important, especially here in Zimbabwe when you talk about green and going green and not using a lot of energy. So you can imagine how many air conditioning units we need to use to cool down this building. But it's all being done naturally. What am I, it's everywhere. I'm going to see myself on YouTube today. You know what? Tell us something about Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is a very quiet, peaceful country. Yes. And we need more tourists, please. Come and visit us. Why should somebody visit Zimbabwe? Well, people should visit Zimbabwe because actually, I'm sorry, I'm coming from a funeral. So I can't be happy, but come visit Zimbabwe, you know? I'm so excited that she doesn't know what she's saying. Yes, I don't even know what I'm saying. Like I've always been preaching everywhere in Africa is home for Africans. Listen, I was walking in the street of Arari enjoying myself and I met this young man right here and I asked him, yo, are you from Zimbabwe? He's like, no. Where are you from, my brother? I'm from DRC, Congo. DRC Congo? Yes. The richest country in the world? Yeah, yeah. And you are here in Zimbabwe? I'm here in Zimbabwe. What brought you to Zimbabwe? Yeah, in searching for life, you know? I find myself here. Life forces me to be here. And how is life in Zimbabwe, bro? Yeah, yeah, we thank God. We are managing. Yeah. Yeah, I'm okay with it. I mean, how long have you been here? For almost a decade, since 2008. You've been here since 2008? Yeah, yeah. If you should tell us something that we need to know about Zimbabwe, what will you say? Yeah, particularly Zimbabwe people, they welcome people. They welcome foreigners. The way they treat foreigners, yeah, is something that is particular from Zimbabwe. Yeah, we are good. We are good, we are good. And it's peaceful to live in Zimbabwe? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it safe? Yeah, very safe to live in Zimbabwe. This is a foreigner. No, I cannot call you a foreigner. You can never be a foreigner in Africa, man. This is our fellow African living in Zimbabwe. And he's telling us that Zimbabwe is super safe. So I just want to welcome you all to Zimbabwe. Yo, yo, yo, I'm here with Haudemarie. Welcome to Zimbabwe. I would say the people in Zimbabwe are actually nice. Whatever about Zimbabwe, you can say, the people are truly nice and welcoming. You can see everyone is safe. Yeah, I would say the best thing about Zimbabwe is the character of the people. And what about Harari? What is so unique about Harari? Well, it's the mounting point of Zimbabwe. If you want to know what's happening in Zimbabwe, come to Harari. And when I was coming to Zimbabwe, I was not expecting to see the people of Zimbabwe living extravagant life. I mean, the houses that people are living in are mansions. And the house that they live in, the compounds that they have, which means these people can boast of huge lands. I'm talking about lands too. I need to let you know that I was so inspired and loved the spirit of farming among the people of Zimbabwe. We've got interesting stories that are coming up that we're going to share with you all. I think they've actually done a great job hiding Zimbabwe from us. But since I'm here, it's time for me to discover the real Zimbabwe. And if I discover the real Zimbabwe, I think it's time for you to share this video to let the world know that Zimbabwe, indeed, is not what you think. So, as a Zimbabwe diaspora, returning back to Zimbabwe, you have a message for the 4 million Zimbabwe living abroad. What would that message be? The message would be there's a lot of negativity around. So, I would say experience Zimbabwe yourself with an open mind. Because sometimes experiencing Zimbabwe with someone else's vision or someone else's thoughts doesn't work. And that was the case with me as well. I used to hear a lot of negative things about Zimbabwe. So, I would say to anyone out there, just come here and experience it with an open mind. I would say that's the most important thing. That way, you will start seeing the country from a true perspective of your lens.