IN southern Africa, townships were built as segregated urban zones for black people. They were created under colonial and white minority rule policies that controlled movement, confined opportunity, and kept people apart. I grew up in a different historic black township in Zimbabwe, but Mbare was the first of its kind. It holds a unique…
In southern Africa townships were built as segregated urban zones for black people. They were created under colonial and white minority rule policies that controlled movement, confined opportunity, and kept people apart. I grew up in a different historic black township in Zimbabwe, but Mbare was the first of its kind. It holds a unique…
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In southern Africa townships were built as segregated urban zones for black people. They were created under colonial and white minority rule policies that controlled movement, confined opportunity, and kept people apart. I grew up in a different historic black township in Zimbabwe, but Mbare was the first of its kind. It holds a unique…