 Zimbabwe got a lot to show the world and I know that these videos that I've been uploading will not show you more of Zimbabwe but I'm trying my possible best to do a bit just to let you know that Zimbabwe is not what you think. Zimbabwe indeed is not what I expected. Listen when I went to Harare I was told that the second biggest city in this country is Bulawayo and I was like how do I get to Bulawayo because I want to go to every corner of this beautiful country so that I'll be able to educate myself and educate my audience. We hired a parado all the way from Harare to Bulawayo the city of kings and queens but listen when I arrived in Bulawayo I saw similarities between Devon of South Africa and what Bulawayo of Zimbabwe and I must confess that this is indeed a mini South Africa inside Zimbabwe and I know that most of you don't know that's why I need to use my platform to educate you. Let me tell you a secret about Zimbabwe that I think most Zimbabwe's don't know. I think Zimbabwe is the home of Empales because when I broke my virginity of safari the things that I was seeing the animals that I was seeing I think the whole national park is filled with Empales and I never knew that there is a hotel in Zimbabwe called Empala and that is where I spent a night and believe it or not it's one of the best place I've ever lived in the entire Zimbabwe but apart from accommodation they are very good in terms of hosting events so take your wedding in there your birthday parties your welcome ceremonies in Empala and you know how Empala runs faster this is how the hotel attendants have going to treat you whenever you find yourself in Empala. Brothers and sisters, welcome to the home of the father of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo. Welcome to Zimbabwe a country between the Bofo and Zimbabwe. Right now we are in the city of Bulawayo and I'm with my brother. Welcome to the city of Bulawayo established here as a town on the 4th of November 1894 and also as a city in 1943. Bulawayo is the center. Bulawayo is our cultural city in Bulawayo. Welcome to Bulawayo, the city of kings and queens. We are at the city hall which is the administrative center for the city of Bulawayo, the second capital of the nation of Zimbabwe which apparently is the home of arts and culture in Zimbabwe. So this is the center for the people. Although we have an influx of different cultures around the city of Bulawayo, we have almost every ethnic group that's found in Zimbabwe right here in the city of Bulawayo. So we find a lot of cultural expression, artistic expression right here in the city of Bulawayo. Welcome to the city of Bulawayo, it's my first time in this beautiful city. I love the fact that when I was in Harari, I thought I've seen the widest road ever. I think the city got more and better wide roads than Harari. Listen if somebody ever told me that this is how a second largest city of Zimbabwe is gonna look like I would definitely not believe it but it's really worth it to come in here man. Like for real I feel like the people of Zimbabwe really need to appreciate their country. They need to start telling their own story for us to know that. Yo I'm not saying that the country is perfect but it's actually not what I expected because even just being the second largest of how clean the city is, it's kind of like a lot more infrastructure. It's just that they don't have like huge buildings and staff back. It's also been here man. To be honest, yeah, after traveling to 25 countries, this place gives me a vibe of South Africa. I feel like I'm in mini-Deban. If you have been to Deban, this place gives you a vibe of Deban. What do I mean by that? The people look like the Zulu people. The language in here sounds like Zulu in South Africa has a language that has been spoken by the people of Deban. But listen, I just have to get someone to talk to because this is just first impression and maybe there is a bit of truth to that. Have you ever been to Deban, brother? No, I haven't been to Deban. Have you been to South Africa? Yeah, yeah, I've been to South Africa. I've been to Hauteng province, Joburg and Eastern Cape. Can I ask you a question? Yes, man. It's my first time in here and this city gives me a vibe of Deban, South Africa or even the people of South Africa. Yeah, yeah. Well, let me give you just a brief history. So the people that are here, that came to this place, known as Ndevele people, migrated from KZD. Deban. So in about 1820, 1821, there about a group of 300 people left with the king called King Zilias and they migrated to present day in the city, what do we know as Wobulawai. I mean, where did the name come from? Wobulawai. Oh, thank you for asking. It's very important. So Wobulawai was in reference to King Lopengula, who was King Zilias' son. Wuna was the, we can say, I can't say the last king because it's been caused to resuscitate the Ndevele monarch. But Lopengula, his journey towards king, the people were resisting. The people didn't want him to be king. So when he said, I'm the one who's being killed, but not on a physical sense, but on a metaphorical sense. Metaphorical, they're killing my dreams to be king. So you've got existence of three Wulawai's that have happened here. So they've been two by King Lopengula. So you remember it's Wobulawai. When you remove the KO, it becomes redundant in the Ndevele language. Because in the Ndevele language, you say, go, it's someone, it's reference to someone. Wow. When I say, go, Maya, I'm saying it's reference to your place. Go and show, go and show. So when they removed the prefix KO, it means that the word became redundant within the context of the Ndevele language. So which means the people of South Africa and the people of Deban are the same people? Yeah, we can say that although in terms of migration, there are the tribes that are also incorporated there, but it is important to note that the legacy in the Ndevele language is born out of the Isizulu language. What are the similarities between Isizulu and Devele? It's almost identical, but what will change over time because of meeting new places, new people, is the accent will change. And remember within the Ndevele culture, there are the tribes also that are incorporated. It means also the language becomes diluted from Isizulu. But there are ways that are still identical, as you speak today. Do you know that South Africans and Zimbabwe are fighting? Yeah, I know, man. I know. I know. I know. And I think it's a bad thing? Yeah. Knowing that you are fighting your own people. Exactly. Because what we've lost, knowing our own history. Because I know your own history. You might know the guy you're putting the entire one is actually related to Ancestral. Because here in Zimbabwe, you see here in the city of Blawai, we say it's a cultural city. Because you've got people also within the South African language, you'll find some South African languages here. You've got your Suthu, your Tuana, your Venda. To name a few, you also find them here. You look at Zambia, the languages. I also found Zimbabwe, Tonga, Sloz. You look at Votoana, the languages that are in Votoana, that are found here in Zimbabwe, Kalanga, Suthuana. So it means we share the same path and our mythology and our world view as Africans is identical. We don't only meet on the element of skin. If you look at skin, we lose it. Let's look at the element of the cosmology. Let's look at the element of the mythology and the different types of the language, the food we are so united by. The OG of content creation in Blawai. Everyone is telling me I need to meet them. Hi guys. Hi guys. What are we going to do today? Today we're going to do a city tour. This is my city. Tell me what's so special about Blawai. The cutest city in Zimbabwe. It's okay. The beautiful place. It's like she knows a lot about her city, man. Or you just did research because I was coming. Not even. I do content creation around this place. So I'm from most of the places and I document Blawai. That's amazing. You know what? Let me tell you something. Have you been to Pasulunata? No, I want to. It's not my package list. Are you guys from Pasulunata? They say our ancestors like us and the Veli people migrated from Saara. The people from here in the Veli. That's the majority. You know why? Because I was in Pasulunata I think two months ago and that's the only city in South Africa that I've seen beautiful women at one particular place. And I was in Harare and I'm like, you know what? I don't think Zimbabwe got the most beautiful women and stuff like that. But when I came to Blawai, oh my goodness. I looked left, right centre. I used to see so many beautiful women and I'm like, I have to connect with them. Definitely in the world. I have no idea about that. But I know for sure that you guys got the most beautiful women in Zimbabwe. And you all look like Pasulunata. Oh yeah. Because it was like, then we then got me. You know what? I love that hybrid. We're going to take you around the city. What is so unique about Blawaio? We're going to show you streets of Blawaio and also anything that I think you need to know about this beautiful city. We're walking in the busy streets of Blawaio. I was not expecting to see Blawaio this busy because I was told that it's a pretty calm and chilled city. Because it's the pink hour, people are going back home to work. They are buying groceries and stuff. These are no groceries. Well, that's what they used to carry groceries. Oh, they used to carry groceries but they are no longer selling groceries. No, those bags, the ones that you showed them. That's what you put inside and then buy groceries inside. What did you just say? This is easy. What's up man? You want to say hello? How are you doing? What's your job? My job is to talk to you. I just said that. No, no, no. I'm just a YouTuber. Oh, YouTuber. Nice to meet you man. What are you going to say? I want you to tell me something about Zimbabwe. What are you going to say? Zimbabwe? Zimbabwe is too s***. Hello, how are you? How are you? I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. Everybody is friendly. Honestly, this is my best day. I'm surprised that I've met this man. I've been following him from China. What he means to you? His name is Wadaba. Is he Chinese now? Yeah, yeah. He's Chinese in here? Yes, yes, yes. Wow, hello. Hello, hello. How are you? I'm fine. I'm fine. How are you? I'm fine. How are you? I'm fine. I'm fine. How are you? I'm fine. How are you? I'm fine. Yesterday, I was watching your YouTube channel. Really? Yes, I'm so happy to see you. This is Lance Jr. Yeah. In Bulawayu, the city of kings and queens. Make sure that you put this on your YouTube channel. No, I'm putting this on your YouTube channel. Yeah, yeah. And please follow me on my channel, Elite TV Nest. We are there to make sure that men of your 30 Nest National University, you should visit us at Nest. I thought the school is now in session. Yeah, it's not, but the students are coming soon. But we were hoping to be with you at Nest National University of Science and Technology. I'll visit you guys, man. Thank you, brother. Meet my brother, Michael Manevi. He's going to be the president of Nest. Really? Nest SRSE student. Bye, bye, bye. Bye. If somebody is watching this video for the first time and has never been to Bulawayu, what are you guys going to tell them? Bulawayu is a beautiful city. And we are hoping that a lot of people visit this beautiful city. It's a city of kings and queens. And they say that the Bulawayu chicks and Bulawayu ladies are the most beautiful in Bulawayu. No, no, no. Brother, I can confirm that. Yeah. That Bulawayu got the most beautiful women in the whole of Zimbabwe. Yes, yes, yes. Hands down. Some questions that you didn't meet, they took off from Trugas, but he's called Vibendulu. He was tagged on Zimsa left saying Bulawayu is known for the most beautiful women in Zimbabwe. No, maybe in the whole of Africa. No. Okay, it's nice meeting you. Nice to meet you, brother. All right. So this is the central point of the city of Bulawayu. The city that is the home of the former African liberation icon, Dr. Joshua Mkabokonyongolankomo. So right behind me here is the statue of Dr. Joshua Mkomo. And this statue represents an end of an era and the beginning of a new one because right here, this is where the statue of the former colonizer, Cecil John was used to stand. And upon attainment of liberation, his statue was removed and replaced very rightly by the statue of the former liberator, Dr. Joshua Mkomo. So Dr. Joshua Mkomo formed the very first liberation movement in the country. And he fought so viciously for the liberation of the local people from the yoke of colonization. And upon independence, he was appointed as minister of homophase and later the vice president of the country, a position that he held until he died in 1999. Within which the city of Bulawayu is located. It's known as Matebeleland. So we have like three provinces, Matebeleland South, Matebeleland North and Bulaway Metropolitan. So the settlers, the British Civil War Company, when they came in, they settled in Machonale, the other side of the country, where Harare and the other towns are situated. But in 1893, they decided they wanted to come over and occupy Matebeleland because it was strategic to their dream. They came to Cairo Dream and also there was lots of mineral wealth here and also lots of ivory. So a conflict was hatched by the settler government to just find a means of toppling the monarch. So a war was fought which led to the king actually burning down his capital and heading north, actually fleeing from the settlers. Long story short, Bulawayo as a town was then opened in 1894. Right, on the 1st of June and the place where Bulawayo was officially opened is right across the road there and that building was the Maxim Hotel. Where you are seeing Wesley Taylor Obtomarist, Candice Yazoo Shubiz and all, this building with a tin roof. This is the hotel outside which the administrator the administrator of Rhodesia the one with the grave in Matopos Leander Sir Jemison he just came out of that building and said ladies and gentlemen we don't want to waste time talking about this. The seat of Bulawayo is officially open so you can come in and have some refreshments. So it was smooth for some time but in 1896 the locals began to revolt and after they revolted this is when the whole town the whole market square was barricaded and they made a lager around and they had to take out all women and children from all over the territory and they made self here and after some days under siege they ran out of water and this well was dug by one engineer then and it provided water for the people under siege there is no water in it there is water and sometimes just for celebrations and sentimental purposes they draw a bit of some water out of it this city got a better history indeed Bulawayo has a better history very compelling and very revealing as far as the narrative the subjugation of the native people as well as their liberation is concerned this tree right here is a testimony to the brutality of the settler regime upon the native people just a walk around the city of Bulawayo will show you that the rest of the trees within the city center are all exotic and they are lined up but this one is out of line and it's indigenous and it was left like that for a purpose the tree is the famous or rather infamous hanging tree so in 1896 after an uprising of the local people against the settler leadership those people were identified as the leaders those were inciting others to rise against the government were identified and taken to this tree for hanging so they were hanged publicly and left like that for everyone else to see so that they would set an example which would deter any native from ever thinking of revolting against the settler government so there is a jail just close to this tree it was known as the Bulawayo Gawur the rest of the people would be taken there but those leaders the key leaders of the uprising would be fished out and hanged and left like that in public to learn a lesson that you don't revolt against the whites but it was only made of time because the same 1896 is the year when the very first Umfugela the very first Chimurenga or the uprising was hedged right in Matopos and later taken over to Machonaland so this tree is called the false Amarula so this is the apex of the hill the hill called Marlinda Nzimu the hill which was the resting place of the benevolent spirits of the nation so it was a sacred area not anybody could just come here let alone be buried here but we have Sisu Rods as remains lying here so how it happened is a story of Tikari because Sisu John Rods managed to weave himself into the hearts of the locals using Tikari Sisu Rods came and wanted to appear as the good white man who was brokering peace between the black locals and the bad white men in the form of Leander Jemison Leander Star Jemison who was the leader of the settler government but then Leander Star Jemison was the leader representing Sisu Rods now what happened is when the royal charter was signed for them to be able to come settle here while Sisu Rods was still putting logistics together for the settlers to come and settle in Zimbabwe coincidentally this is the time when he was elected to be the prime minister of the cap so this means he could not personally come and lead here so he appointed someone else now Leander Star Jemison finds himself being the bad white man Rods coming in and saying okay look guys I want you to live in peace the whites and the blacks and the blacks begin to like Rods to the extent that when he then approaches them to say I want to be buried at that place they have no problem with that because they've actually called him the great white chief so he has the rank of a chief amongst the locals and they give their permission for him to be buried here because in their minds this is one white man who is on their side so this is why Sisu Rods is buried here and then so he writes in his will that he I admire the grandeur and loneliness of the Matopos so when I die I would desire to be buried in Matopos in Rhodesia on that hill that I namely the view of the world in a square to be cut into the rock with these ways there on here lie the remains of Sisu John Rods and this is exactly what we see here so he was buried here and the local chiefs were assembled on that lower platform there and they chanted their royal salute Vayete this is a salute that was only chanted for kings and chiefs and this white man and that though in retrospect you begin to see that sometimes when people want to win big things they try to manipulate the mind so this is what this guy did he writes also in his will that he wants Jemison the same Jemison was tormenting the locals he wants him to be buried here so this is honored because it's him who is saying it how was he tormenting the locals? okay so Jemison is the guy who was leading these brutal campaigns where locals were being assaulted where locals were being killed the Anglon Devele war which was fought between the settlers and the Devele people which actually led to the dislodging of the king was ordered by him so if this place is that so sacred why would you bury a murderer in the place where kings are found in here? yes, like I told you that at Greta Zimbabwe this is the place where kings were physically buried so it's important because this is where you find the bonds of the kings but this one is the place where the spirits of the kings and chiefs and these important people would come and congregate so he follows he wants that place where physically people are buried and later he realizes no, but there is a more important place where the spirits are he comes here but he is allowed because he has endeared himself to the local people wow has anyone tried to assume this before? yeah, they have been calls to exhume but so far it hasn't happened because as a national monument it's also protected by the laws of the land and what is that? so this is a memorial tower and a mass grave mass grave? yes so this platform at the bottom here is a mass grave and there are remains of 34 people there who are those 34 people? these 34 people are Alan Wilson and he is 33 patrolmen so these are the guys who fought the last battle that dislodged the king Lobenguila by the Shangani River so unfortunately for these guys they were all wiped out by who? by the Nevele warriors so that's a memorial tower that's erected in their own so these guys when they were butchered there in that battle Sisulroz ordered them to be buried there later he ordered that they be exhumed and be taken to the place which he intended for a hero's acre which was Great Zimbabwe so these guys were re-buried at Great Zimbabwe later when he discovered this place he ordered them to be resumed and brought here but he said only after he's dead and buried here he wants to be the first person to be buried here so these guys were buried three times can I ask you a question? yeah I hope it makes sense though why would a sacred place like this be for the colonizers? because you're not even sure you mean that a king was buried in here see another person is there who is that? okay so that place there that cross you see the cross? no I'm not even talking about a cross that's another okay so this is the grave of the first prime minister who is also a colonizer? who is also a colonizer? these are colonizers Sisulroz was the colonizer that's also the colonizer Charles Patrick John Couglin is the colonizer so there's no local that was buried in here? no local was buried here the thing is for the locals this place was known for burial so the physical things that we see talk of the colonizers they are for the colonizers but what we don't see the spiritual aspect is for the local so when the colonizers came here it would look like there's nothing here that was very very important the spirits were residing here and I believe they still reside here I'm not happy the fact that a place like this is only for colonizers but anyway who am I I'm just a young traveler traveling across the continent but I just hope that the leaders of this country will see this video because for me I don't think it makes sense yeah in as much as for us to know that something like this sort happened in this country I don't think it's right for a place like this to be a monument for colonizers I mean this history even I'm not saying erase the history but you could still bury them in a place where we can all go and see that okay this is where they buried but not here I'm sorry this is what I think it's not a bad thought it's not a bad thought to be honest I'm tired of climbing since I came to Zimbabwe to see anything I need to climb and being in Matopos it's even worse I've been climbing climbing climbing climbing right now we're on our way to see the cave painting they call it a rhino cave painting just to show to you guys that there are people that are existing in here I mean the settlers of this place before anyone else yeah so let's just keep climbing even though it's tiring but I'm doing this for you guys things that I do for you guys just watch you better share the video like the video in the way of appreciating what we do so guys in Matopos if we can't find live animals we can always find animals somehow really either drawn on rocks by the same people or naturally made on rock just as that rock straight ahead there when you look at that rock what do you see? looks like a Zimbabwe bed Zimbabwe bed job what do you think? a camel Steve a tortoise a rhino you think it's a lamb so each time I come up here with people I ask them the same question and I've heard all these answers before except rhino so I think it's not it's all the other answers except rhino rhino is the worst one ever so we've seen all those animals in one ok but don't worry as we proceed we're going to see rhinos we're going to see rhinos painted on rock this time so what animals? that's a turtle that's a camel that's Zimbabwe bed and it's a lamb all in one not rhino all in one but it's not a rhino we find paintings of a white rhino in all of Matopos and modern day ecologists make use of rock art as a reference point to see what sort of animals used to be found within an area so if they want to introduce an animal they know it can survive here because it once survived before so because what the same people used to do is they would make their diaries on rock faces so they would make figurines paintings of the different things that they would meet in their daily lives whether it's something that makes them happy whether it's something that's a challenge to them they would always put that information on rock faces so this particular cave served a purpose some time back when white rhinos were sort of no longer existing within Matopos and the Zimbabwe government the arrangement of the Zimbabwe government to bring some white rhinos from South Africa from the Kruu Ganeshan Park but now they wanted to find suitable places where they can place them and this rock art made sort of evidence that they used to be white rhinos here and today due to that introduction of white rhinos the Matopos is like the largest number of white rhinos on state land in Zimbabwe yes so it's like the largest like the most successful rhinoconservation taking place right here in Matopos so this was done by the same people the same people yeah the same people were the first ever a known group of people to live in here before the Bantu people came this is beautiful awesome first time seeing this kind of museum what goes on in here so there's a lot of scientific research taking place okay about all living nature and even non-living nature so we have several departments some are researching on mammals some on reptiles some on fish some on beds some on geology paleontology and also that kind of stuff we also do have a research department that tries to find out what happened in the past but apart from research we do have exhibition galleries that showcase what we have the world of heritage that we have in Zimbabwe in southern Africa and as the world the building is unique it is it was custom built for a museum okay yeah so this building was officially opened in 1962 and it's still strong so this is the best museum in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa the biggest the biggest and best in terms of content in terms of the research output and in terms of what it showcases so this is our world life gallery showcasing the world of vegetation and animals that we have in Zimbabwe so this side we have dry season and wet season this side this is beautiful it is awesome is this a natural tree or it's artificial it's artificial everything in here well even the animals of the animals everything that you see on the outside except the eyes everything else that you see on the outside is real but what you don't see in the inside is not real so this is a this is an elephant this is this is the second largest mounted elephant in the whole world so this elephant was short when it was coming from my water hole so you know elephants have this habit of wallowing mud blasting themselves so that they suffocate parasites and they keep themselves cool so it had to be reproduced the way it was it was killed it was short because it had become a menace to people in the Saharan community so this is how it looks like this is what it looked like real size that's huge yeah can elephants get this bigger yeah some get bigger the one that's in the Massachusetts Museum of Natural History is bigger than this that's the only one that's bigger than this one of all mounted elephants in the whole world the western region of Ghana and I'm here in Buluwayo and apparently Buluwayo is in the western region of Zimbabwe so which means that if I ever want to live in Zimbabwe this is the best place for me to live yeah I mean let me remind you guys man do you guys remember the first wife of Robert Mogabe that is Sally Sally was from my region which is also the western region of Ghana so definitely Sally realized that oh Zimbabwe has western region so if I go in there I'm not going I'm not going to be a foreigner in Zimbabwe yep I get a coat bro