Why Isn More Known About Zimbabwe and the Stone Sculpture?
Geopolitically isolated for many years, Zimbabwe was a little-travelled British colony. Then, on November 11, 1965, the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (called UDI) was declared and trade sanctions were imposed against Rhodesia. As a result, the country’s economy became further isolated from the Commonwealth and the Western world. In 1972, civil war was declared on the Smith regime. Zimbabwe later gained peaceful independence under majority rule in 1980. Since independence, Zimbabwe is again being discovered by tourists, and anthropological studies have now begun again on the stone ruins throughout the country.
