The Green Ancestors Series
A limited series, looking at how Zimbabwean ancestors engaged in climate justice and preserved the environment
3 Episodes
Episode 1 - Language, Taboo and Storytelling with Dr Ignatius Mabasa
What did our Zimbabwean ancestors have in place to tackle climate issues? What were the indigenous knowledge tactics such as language, taboo and storytelling were used for conservation? Dr Ignatius Mabasa is the first person to ever write and defend a thesis entirely in ChiShona. He chats to Larry Kwirirayi…
Episode 2 - Religion, Spirituality and Environment preservation in pre-colonial Zimbabwe with Tinashe Muchuri -
On this second episode of the The Green Ancestors Series podcast, Larry Kwirirayi chats with Cultural practitioner, Writer, Storyteller, Poet and Critic Tinashe Muchuri on how religion and spirituality in pre-colonial Zimbabwe was used to engage in preservation of the environment.
Ep 3 - How colonisation negatively affected indigenous conservation in Zimbabwe
In this third installment of the Green Ancestors Podcast series, Larry Kwirirayi explores the effect that colonisation had on soil and forest protection and how indigenous conservation was ignored.