If there is one place in Africa that is worth visiting to understand the deep mystery of the continent, it is Great Zimbabwe. These are enigmatic ruins that rise in the southeast of Zimbabwe, far enough from the capital, Harare, and the country's second city, Bulawayo, for most tourist circuits to ignore them. A big mistake, since when you walk among the walls of Great Zimbabwe, or when you climb to the fortifications on the high part, you realize that Africa is much more than what historians say who insist on narrating the history of Africa starting from the arrival of the first explorers.

"Today Lithuania, tomorrow Catalonia". Paintings with this slogan appeared all over Catalonia Aliança Catalana now introduces a new player: Rhodesia. What is now Zimbabwe was an unrecognized state, governed by a white minority, which emerged when it unilaterally declared independence from the United Kingdom in 1965 to avoid a black majority government, with the end of colonization. The independence, which was effective from 1965 to 1979, aimed to perpetuate the power of the 240,000 white people who lived there versus the 4.5 million Africans, who did not have the right to vote and from whom they took their land, which caused a bloody conflict that lasted a decade.