 Our problems in Africa is actually because we have migrated from Africa. We are here physically, but we have actually migrated. We are aspiring to be something else. We need to go back to Africa. This is where our solutions are. This is deep. Welcome to Kami National Monuments, which is also a well-tiered site. This is a pre-colonial city, which was the capital of people known as the Torwa people. And the ruler here was known as Nkami. And the site eventually was named after him. This is a site that comes right after Great Zimbabwe. It's the success of Great Zimbabwe to the North West. And then there is another one in South Africa, because when the Great Zimbabwe fell, there were three splinter groups. One went back to South Africa, one went to the North West, the famous Mutapa state. And then the Torwa people came here. Now, why are they known as the Torwa? Torwa is a shona name, or rather kalanga, which refers to people who are coming from somewhere. So the locals who were subjected by these people were coming from Great Zimbabwe. We are referring to them as those who came from somewhere, who are ruling us. So that's why they call them the Torwa. The people that are coming from Kami rooms are descendants of Great Zimbabwe. Yes, definitely. These are people who are coming from Great Zimbabwe. So if they are descendants and they never lived in Great Zimbabwe, which means probably there was a war and they decided to separate themselves from Great Zimbabwe? Definitely. The reason why Kami is established and the other center where we find the Mutapa people is definitely because there has been a conflict there and now they split. So conflict led them to this place? Conflict led them to this place. So yeah, sometimes conflicts lead to expansion. Why did they get their granite rocks from? It's different from the one in Great Zimbabwe? Yeah, it's definitely different. The granite we find here is a bit reddish, while the one in Great Zimbabwe is silvery in color. These are layers, right? Yes. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. And did they establish this without mortar too? Without mortar, yes. Can I get closer? You can get closer but you can't climb. No, I'm not climbing. I'm definitely not climbing. You said this was established by Africans? Africans, yes. Without mortar? Without mortar. I'm sure only Africans could do this. Till up there. So you find that this place down here was the place where they would have meetings with the king. The king used to live right up there and he would come down here for meetings. I think they wanted to have meetings at a place where they are actually marveling at the face of the terrace rocks. This is the most beautiful you can find here at Kami. It's beautiful. So they also wanted to decorate the king's place with all these nice designs. Does it mean that the king lives over there? Over there. That's where you would find the king's houses there. I just want to go up. I don't want to ask you so many questions. This is the king's residence. And you find a number of houses here. This is one of them. You can see the remains of the foundations in the wall. So they would use a packed F to make the walls in the foundations. So this was like a two-roomed house. This kingdom extended in all directions around and the king from here was supposed to be able to look around this kingdom. Can actually see everyone. Yeah, and see everyone. See how his people are doing. No one was happening here. Right. So this is the security area because the people who would be coming to see the king would not be using that path we took. They would be taking this long winding one. And once you get there, that gate there, once you enter it, this way you are scanned. This way the truth is revealed. You say you are here to see the king. You say you are here for this. But are you really here for that? So you would be checked spiritually by the spiritual gurus in there. If they find out you are lying, then the boys would get hold of you and kill you. I think those days the security guard for the king would be the Sangomes. So once you pass that, you are free to go see the king now. So on that here, right here, there were two tasks here. I don't know if they were instruments for divination or they were just symbols of reality. That's all you guys found in here. You can even see the whole right here. So which means one would be here. One would be somewhere here. Yo, can you guys remember what we found at Asian Lodge Resort? There were two ivory just connecting each other. Yes. With the king's palace. I think they got idea from here. That's the formation they were taking. They came towards each other like that. In a number of our traditions as well, ivory is a symbol for reality. The elephant itself is a sign of reality. This is the heart that's believed to have been the king's heart because it's the topmost point of the hill. The reason here shows that the king used to live here. Imagine the king has concubines, surrounding him with all this breeze. No, the king really lived here. I think I have to build a house in here. Look at that. It goes down. Yes. So this is the path that people would take coming to see the king. If you drop closer, you will see this sort of a little corridor there. Yeah, a little corridor coming up. But I should say the corridors here although narrow, they are a bit broader than those at Grace Babu. This almost like Grace Babu, right? Yeah, it looks like exactly Grace Babu in this lane. But if you check, you realize it's a bit wider than that at Grace Babu. Why? I would think it's because now when they are here, these people are feeling we don't want to rely more on physical structures for security but we want to upgrade to the metaphysical structures. We want to base more on the spiritual security system which is why we have that vetting house. When you come, we are going to vet you. Yeah, now we are using witchcraft. I think it's more like when you have an iPhone, right? We had an iPhone 6 and iPhone 7 came. It was more advanced. I think people coming from all the way from Grace Babu, they saw the architecture in there and when they came here, they were like, okay, since we broke out during conflict I want to show you guys that we are more powerful and we went a lot. That's why I think we advanced. Thank you. That's what I see in here. This is beautiful, man. I was born in Africa and I don't know this history. Today is my first time and I have to be honest with you. But now you know the history. Now I know and they have to know. That's how I keep on telling you guys, come along with me, travel with me. Travel with me, not just for the women but for history videos. That was the king's bath. So that's where the king would bath. No one else was allowed to bath there. If you are seeing there, it would be interpreted as something subversive. You are scheming, you are planning something against the king. Maybe you want to poison his bath. So that would end you a death sentence. So even after Kami had been abandoned and we now have developed people around here, they still called it Isisibasengwe, meaning the pool of the crocodile. You don't get into the pool of the crocodile. So the king is the crocodile. Careful. This is a bit steep here. Is it a part for the king to go and take a shower? To go and take a shower, yes. And I don't think the king will shower in every day because the river is down there. Maybe twice in a month. In a month man. If I live here, definitely I'm not going down every day. Every day. Ya. So the king's path would continue this way. But we are going this way. Where are we going right now? To the cross. The cross. The archeological findings seem to indicate that that's where the kingdom's treasure was. This way they would keep all the treasures right there. Why not keep something close to the king? People who are responsible for the finances, for the treasure and oh, we're living there. I think this is something that African leaders need to learn. Ya. They shouldn't keep the countries gold everything close to them. They should give it to the people. Give it to the people. No, they don't give it to the people now. They are not learning from their ancestors. So this is the cross platform. And as you can see this cross is made with is forced with some cement. Ya. It's not original. It's not part of the original inhabitants of Kami. They are not the ones who did this one. Okay. So this is a kumikan cross which must have been put here by the Portuguese. Because the Portuguese came here for trade. They also participated in a civil war here which took place here which weakened the tourist state leading to another group called the Rosie coming to conquer and take over. So it's believed that this cross was put up by the Portuguese in imitation of what was taking place here. Because this was a worship area this is where people would come to enter the gods for good luck, even for healing even for all family and personal matters here. There is another place where national issues would be addressed now spiritually, not here. This was for family issues, for personal issues. So when the Portuguese learnt about what was happening here they also adopted this place and then they put their cross. So as you can see up to now people come here to make their little sacrifices and whisper a few words to the gods they put money here. Yes, they put money. Some put rings some put earrings, all sorts of things. This was the kingdom. This was the capital. How many people were living in here? Within the town. I won't be sure of the number but the kingdom itself was not limited to the area around Kami. It is the royalty. It is the power system that was here. But you find that they were ruling over people all the way to probably Guero probably to the border with the Botswana, Zambia and O. Which means this place was a kingdom for royalty not a place where more like you are living in a city where residential everyone lived around here. Is it the same for Great Zimbabwe? Yes, you see what people don't understand is when we say Mapungubu fell and then it was succeeded by Great Zimbabwe. Mapungubu was not a center where all the people would be living there. It was the royal capital but they would be ruling over people all the way even back into Zimbabwe. So we see royalty now moving from Mapungubu to Great Zimbabwe but they are still ruling over people even people who remain back there. So when Kami is established it's only Kami now is no longer ruling over the whole kingdom that was at Great Zimbabwe because now they have split. So some people are now paying allegiance to another capital but we would say probably close to half of the people. It's just like our Harare. Harare is a city and it's the capital city of Zimbabwe, the whole of Zimbabwe. This is where the president lives, the cabinet and all but they are ruling over the whole of Zimbabwe all the way to Bedbridge, to Plumtree to... So if let's say we are comparing this to modern day this is the state house. Yes, you would say that this is the state house like the top most that's the state house but you also have some of the ministerial you know some powerful people around so they form the government here. When the villagers have harvested there is a little percentage that they are supposed to submit to the king and it's kept in here because the king doesn't go for me he feeds from what the people have harvested but the corn that would come here was just too much the king would not exhaust it so this is what the king would use to support the poor. Yes. So it's a concept that's even there even now that's what I wanted to tell you. Yes. Like when people grow maize in here, the corn in here all the maize of the country to the government all the maize that we grow because for security reasons sell it to the government to the government but do you know that government prices are always no good they are not sell it to me. No, I'm patriotic. I'm patriotic. But why is it a law for you to sell your maize to the government? Yes. For security reasons to feed the nation. Yes. They got a concept from here. Right. So we have like our grain marketing board where people send their stuff and the government is able to support the nation from that. Even in the rural communities the kings, the chiefs now are doing the same so people will submit a certain percentage and they would look at orphans people who are poor they would help them from there. What was the economic activity that was going on here? So just like Great Zimbabwe it was mostly farming as in tilling the land crop production and also cattle ranching. So we find that the choice of the site apart from the security concerns was also the availability of water so it was just next to the Kami River. The Kami River was very instrumental in the economic activity especially for farming and also for their cattle. But also there was big game hunting because now the Portuguese are coming to trend and they are looking for ivory and the locals are now taking part in that kind of activity so that they also get goodies that the Portuguese are bringing. The Great Zimbabwe fell Kami also fell down. So just as the Great Zimbabwe was a very important trade centre Kami was also a trade centre after Great Zimbabwe. So there was a civil war just like Great Zimbabwe and one of the contenders enlisted the service of the Portuguese to help him win but this should have weakened the state. The whole Kami state led to another more militant group called the Rosi to come and conquer them, subjugate and take over. So it means two people rule this kingdom. Two groups rule this kingdom. So that was sort of the end of the Torah. As an African any time that you come in here how do you feel? Okay. So as an African I feel like this is just some of the evidence that we have that as Africans we had our own innovation our own unique ingenuity that if we had not been discouraged from following that if we had not abandoned it would be somewhere far ahead of what's regarded as the first world today because I believe there is greatness in African civilization that is actually pioneering ahead of what we have now. The problem is as Africans we've been discouraged we feel like our heritage is useless but if we look into our heritage we find clues of how to forge ahead and be ahead because now the problem is once you abandon your own you introduce something new you can't beat the person who introduced that to you you are always following behind but if we followed this we would be ahead. Does it mean that Africans feel inferior? That's the feeling that most Africans have they don't believe in their own. Does it mean maybe it came about the fact that we don't know our history? Yeah. So which is why people like you should actually open the eyes of the people to our history, to our heritage so that they realize the richness of our heritage. Because this is mind blowing you know whenever I see things like that I don't feel inferior anymore I feel like what are we doing wrong because if our ancestors were able to put rocks together without the rocks falling down and arrange rocks like this with no mortar even right now we can't even build houses without mortar. So one of the problems in Africa is actually because we have migrated from Africa we are here physically but we have actually migrated we are aspiring to be something else so I'm actually writing a book The Journey Back to Africa I really want to read that book The Journey Back to Africa it's not a journey to be undertaken by someone who is physically out of Africa people who are right here we need to go back to Africa this is where our solutions are This is deep to what do you mean by people are living in Africa but yet they've migrated out of Africa what does that statement mean? This statement means that if you look at what we do now our processes our aspirations our hopes someone who in three to days is hoping when I grow up I would like to go to England live in England when I grow up I would like to do this so where is our hope where is our aspiration somewhere else we aspire to be something else we are abandoning the greatness that we have we are abandoning the rich heritage that bears all answers if we go back to the drawing board as Africans we begin to develop from there I'm sure no one can beat us how do we do that? look technologically we are way way ahead do you see Africans introduce wireless everything African was wireless but we discourage it's dark magic it's witchcraft it's bad and then they reintroduce wireless and we aspire to embrace that one look traditionally someone could travel from here to Harare just at the click of the button imagine if you were to go to Jobbeck for a meeting at 10 am and you would be in your office in Bulawayo at 1 minute to 10 and they say guys I'm going to Jobbeck for a meeting pa you are in Jobbeck you show up there the meeting is ending at 11 2 pas 11 you are back in Bulawayo how bad is that? we are told that is witchcraft and it's evil and it's evil but witchcraft is just like nuclear energy nuclear energy can be used for bad can be used for good we are using nuclear energy right now in our labs diagnostics and all it's good but someone can use it for destruction witchcraft can be used in the same manner you can use it for good for development familiar prowess and you can the bad people can use it for evil that's not our fault I say let's go back to witchcraft are you done with your book? not yet when is it going to be ready? probably by the end of here most definitely I wish this book was ready while I'm here because I really want to know more from him afrikans introduced wireless this is the new thing I'm learning today