Places
Binga: BaTonga culture, the Zambezi and living heritage
Explore a community whose story goes far beyond Lake Kariba: BaTonga memory, languages, local crafts, historical displacement and cultural institutions.
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2026 retrospective collectionJanuary 2026
January 2026
The places that raised us.
Compiled and first published 15 Oct 2026 — this is a look back, not an edition originally released in January 2026.
7 carefully selected, sourced stories. A fresh look at the Zimbabwean places, traditions and communities that live in our memories.
From the editor’s desk
A landscape becomes a home through the people who inhabit it. In this retrospective collection, travel from the stone cities of Great Zimbabwe and Khami to the BaTonga community of Binga, the Matobo Hills and the forests of Mana Pools. These are not attractions collected for a tourist brochure. Every place has people, languages, schools, communities and an inheritance that reaches across generations. The histories often began long before 1980; the question for OurPride is what independence-era Zimbabweans preserved, changed and passed on. Read these source-linked histories, share a place that shaped you and tell us whose local knowledge is still missing.
Pass the pride on.
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