Zimbabwe: a Hyper-Inflated Sense of Awesome

All Around This World Map of Africa featuring Zimbabwe

For this week’s online class we travel south in Africa to Zimbabwe, a country whose recent history is full of high highs, such as that of gaining independence, and low lows, such as unfathomable hyper-inflation, all set to the bounding musical soundtrack of an ancient thumb piano, a man nicknamed Tuku and some guys who used to tend chickens. Let’s go.

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