So I was doing research on East Africa, pre colonial and all. Great Zimbabwe is one of the most fascinating ancient structures, although for sure we don't know who built it the majority of historians consider the Shona people to have built it right?
According to explorers;
The height of Great Zimbabwe was right after the Bantu expansion into East Africa,
"The expansion is believed to have taken place in at least two waves, between about 3,000 and 2,000 years ago (approximately 1,000 BC to AD 1)." - Wikipedia (for a lack of a better source).
Also according to the explorers of that time the Bantus had settled the area since their expansion has no idea who built these structures. That begs the question....how? If you've been living in an area for 1000s of years and your ancestors literally built the huge city nearby you how would you not know?
Unless you didn't built it.
There is a counter claim by the Lemba people who trace their heritage to the people of Sena.
Since the late twentieth century, there has been increased media and scholarly attention with regard to the Lemba's claim of common descent from the Jewish people.[4][5][6] Genetic Y-DNA analyses in the 2000s have established a partially Middle-Eastern origin for the majority of the male Lemba population.[7][8][9]
What if the original Jewish population mixed with the Bantus for centuries eventually forgetting that they were once a completely different race and they are the ones who originally built the city. The Lemba themselves barely clinging onto the fact they built the city but instead adopting their assimilated Bantu cousins idea of the city being built by devils. Over centuries this became the explanation by the people generation to generation being engraved in their minds.
As @Waa dhamatay's people would put it, "Once you go black, your never coming back" or whatever.
According to explorers;
The height of Great Zimbabwe was right after the Bantu expansion into East Africa,
"The expansion is believed to have taken place in at least two waves, between about 3,000 and 2,000 years ago (approximately 1,000 BC to AD 1)." - Wikipedia (for a lack of a better source).
Also according to the explorers of that time the Bantus had settled the area since their expansion has no idea who built these structures. That begs the question....how? If you've been living in an area for 1000s of years and your ancestors literally built the huge city nearby you how would you not know?
Unless you didn't built it.
There is a counter claim by the Lemba people who trace their heritage to the people of Sena.
Since the late twentieth century, there has been increased media and scholarly attention with regard to the Lemba's claim of common descent from the Jewish people.[4][5][6] Genetic Y-DNA analyses in the 2000s have established a partially Middle-Eastern origin for the majority of the male Lemba population.[7][8][9]
What if the original Jewish population mixed with the Bantus for centuries eventually forgetting that they were once a completely different race and they are the ones who originally built the city. The Lemba themselves barely clinging onto the fact they built the city but instead adopting their assimilated Bantu cousins idea of the city being built by devils. Over centuries this became the explanation by the people generation to generation being engraved in their minds.
As @Waa dhamatay's people would put it, "Once you go black, your never coming back" or whatever.
