Malindidzimu
Malindidzimu ("Hill of the Ancestral Spirits" in Kalanga) is a granite inselberg and a national historical monument situated in the Matobo National Park in south-west Zimbabwe, c. 40 kilometers south of Bulawayo. It is considered a sacred place by nationalists and indigenous groups as a shrine to the Shona supreme deity Mwari.
Cecil Rhodes is buried on the summit of Malindidizumu, together with Sir Charles Coghlan, Sir Leander Starr Jameson, Allan Wilson and several other white settlers. Traditional Shona kingdoms were theocratic, and Rhodes' request to be buried there has been interpreted as a gesture of colonial triumph and conquest over indigenous Africans and their religious belief systems.
The English name of the site is "World's View" which is not to be confused with World's View, Nyanga.
References
- ^ "World's View - Malindidzimu in Zimbabwe". My Guide Zimbabwe.
- ^ "Malindidzimu Hill". TheFreeDictionary.com.
- ^ Maylam, P. 2002. Monuments memorials and the mystique of empire: the immortalisation of Cecil Rhodes in the twentieth century. African Sociological Review, 6 (1) [1] Archived 2006-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Block, R. 1998. Now in Bad Odor in Zimbabwe, Rhodes Isn't Safe in His Grave. Wall Street Journal, Dec. 9, 1998: 1, 6
- ^ Murove, Munyaradzi Felix (2020), Murove, Munyaradzi Felix (ed.), "Ethical Politics in the Context of African Traditional Religion", African Politics and Ethics: Exploring New Dimensions, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 31–51, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-54185-9_3, ISBN 978-3-030-54185-9, retrieved 20 December 2024
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