The Rebirth of Bukalanga Back Cover - Extract Summary

Following is the BACK COVER of The Rebirth of Bukalanga: A Manifesto for the Liberation of a Great People with a Proud History 

Category: History/Politics/Anthropology

For the last 30 years Zimbabwe has been divided amongst the Shona and Ndebele, with gross distortions of both history and politics. Never told in that set-up has been the story of what is perhaps the largest nation in the country - Bukalanga. Here is the vivid story of the Great Nation of Bukalanga. Learn the moving story of this great nation, what was the greatest civilization in precolonial sub-Saharan Africa. Their 2000-year history is traced in The Rebirth of Bukalanga. Some of the great lessons from the book are:

·      Bukalanga, constituting over 90% of the population of so-called Matebeleland and about 50% of the Zimbabgwean population, were the earliest Bantu people to have a sustained settlement in Zimbabgwe, South Africa and Botswana, a region in which they would found the greatest civilization known to sub-Saharan Africa. In this land they settled 500 years before the Tswana and over 1000 years before the Shona.

·      They were the first Bantu to be involved in gold, copper and iron mining and smelting, and international trade, trading with such far off lands as China, Persia, East Asia, East Africa, India, Egypt and Arabia at an era when no other sub-Saharan African peoples were involved in the same.

·      They were the builders of Mapungubgwe, Great Zimbabgwe and Khami, and had the most well-organized form of government of all sub-Saharan African nations - the Mapungubgwe, Monomotapa, Togwa and Lozwi Kingdoms. 

·      Bukalanga also had the most advanced idea of the Supreme Being, believing in a High God called Mwali, whose origins are traced to the Semitic world. Learn also the truth that Matopo Njelele shrines have never been a Shona religions center, but have always been a Bukalanga religious center. You will also hear the story of the Asiatic or Semitic-Jewish blood running in veins of Bukalanga.

·      Learn how this history and heritage of Bukalanga has been 'stolen' and falsely appropriated to the Shona, a group to which Bukalanga does not belong as is commonly held and taught. Also learn the truth and fact that the so-called Matabeleland has never at any point in history been 'Shona land'. The Land has always been Bukalanga, and the Shona have no claim to it whatsoever.

·      You will also hear the story of what has happened to Bukalanga to destroy their onward march and civilization - the 19th century Ndebele Massacres and the Shona-sponsored Gukurahundi Genocide in the 1980s.


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  1. Unknown20 July 2016 at 04:51

    hi! To all would anyone please tell me izithakazelo zakwa Bhunge please.

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  2. Anonymous23 May 2018 at 23:56

    Bhunge's interests

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