Great Zimbabwe was built between the 11th and 15th centuries.
Massive stone enclosures. Walls 11 meters high. 250 meters in circumference. Built without mortar, with such precision that the walls have stood for centuries.
A thriving city that at its height housed 18,000 people. A trading hub connected to Swahili Coast networks that moved gold, ivory, and goods as far as China.
When European explorers encountered it in the 19th century, they did not ask: who built this?
They asked: who built this that wasn’t African?
The theories came quickly. Phoenicians. Arabs. A lost white civilization. King Solomon. The Queen of Sheba.
Literally anyone except the people who had been living in and around it for centuries and whose oral histories described exactly who built it and when and why.
It took until the 20th century, and a British archaeologist named David Randall-MacIver working against enormous institutional resistance, to formally establish what the people who lived there had never forgotten:
Africans built it.
Africans built it.
The refusal to accept that was not ignorance.
It was integral to the colonial narrative that justified ruling and dispossessing Africans while declaring them incapable of the very achievements their ancestors had left standing in stone.
The ruins were African. The myth that denied their origins was colonial.
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You might want to study what halal slaughtering is all about. It is the Islamic way of killing an animal.
Islam is a religion of mercy towards all creatures.
You speak about the animals KNOWING that they will die.
According to the rules of halal slaughtering, the animals are not supposed to witness each other being killed.
A knife is used to slit the main vein in the throat of the animal, and the animal isnt supposed to SEE the knife.
When the main vein is cut, the blood rushes out of the body and the animal loses consciousness. It is as if they fall asleep.
This kind of gentle treatment towards livestock is what produces GOOD meat coming from RELAXED animals.
Not stressed out animals who have just watched their mates being killed.
God guide us all.