Government Presses For Repatriation Of First Chimurenga (1893-1896) Heroes Skulls From Britain

Government Presses For Repatriation Of First Chimurenga (1893-1896) Heroes Skulls From Britain

THE government is “frantically working” to repatriate from Britain skulls of indigenous people killed in a 1890s anti-colonialism war, said a Cabinet minister. However, Robert Barrett, one of the country’s leading historians and archeologists, told the Telegraph that there was no proof that any skulls of Zimbabwe’s early liberation fighters ended up in the UK after they were executed during the first rebellion against British rule in 1896. Again, there are reportedly no qualified pathologists…

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