17 November in African history

The late British-Zimbabwean novelist, Doris Lessing died

On this day in 2013, a well known Rhodesian bred-writer Doris Lessing died. Her first published book stesses thematical concerns affecting black people which is now Zimbabwe. For instance, in ‘The Grass Is Singing’ (1950), is about a white farmer and his wife and their African servant in Rhodesia.

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The late, Scottish physician, congregationalist and pioneer Christian missionary David Livingstone discovered Victoria Falls

On this day in 1855 in Zimbabwe, Dr David Livingstone became the first non-African to observe Mosi-oa-Tunya, the amazing waterfall on the Zambezi River.

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