VICTORIA FALLS | Zambia | Zimbabwe | Travel Guide

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VICTORIA FALLS | Zambia | Zimbabwe | Travel Guide


Victoria Falls is located on the Zambezi River, the fourth largest river in Africa, which is also defining the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Victoria Falls is the only waterfall in the world with a length of more than a kilometer and a height of more than hundred meters. It is also considered to be the largest fall in the…

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  1. It's always funny when someone says "this European discovered this thing in 1855" when everyone who lived there knew about it since time immemorial.

  2. Unless you have forgotten or changed the meaning of the word discover, then we need to say truth as it should now told. Saying that David Livingston discovered the Victoria Falls comes from a place of European appropriation of stolen knowledges. The coming of European missionaries and colonisers marked the distortion of the African voice. Our history about when Dr. David Livingstone arrived in Zambia, tells us that he was taken to see the falls the local people called ‘Shungu na Mutitima’, which in Tongan means ‘Boiling water’ or ‘Mosi-o-Tunya’ in Lozi, meaning ‘the smoke that thunders’. To the contrary Eurocentric history indicates whose voice is presented in this video tells us that Dr. David Livingstone, ‘discovered’ the Victoria Falls and named it ‘Victoria Falls’, after Queen Victoria. A similar history is recorded in Australia’s Northern Territory where the giant monolith called Uluru in Aboriginal languages was renamed Ayers after Sir Henry Ayers. There are two problems here. Firstly, this view gives prominence to the European history of conquest and secondly, the silencing of the conquered indigenous voices from stating facts from their perspective. Secondly, Dr. David Livingstone renamed the falls after his queen of England. This act rendered local names inferior and useless. This simple illustration shows how European settlers distorted and disregarded the culture, the local names, local literacy and the voices of the Indigenous communities among which they settled.
    So to say that Dr Livingston discovered is great example of stolen knowledge and misrepresentation of facts.

  3. Both Countries shared the Victoria Falls but you can only access the devil's pool on Zambian side. The largest part for that matter 1.5 km is in Zambia. 0.5 km in Zimbabwe. but the Falls can be seen better from the Zimbabwean side because Zimbabwe has a wider view of the Zambian side, while on the Zambian side you can actually feel & experience the falls if you get much closer to the Knife Edge Bridge in Zambia also Zambia has about 400 wetter falls hope you come in February to June Musi Oa Tunya will blow your mind lol 🇿🇲🇿🇼

  4. @World Travel Guide point of correction David Livingstone did not DISCOVER the water falls, he was led there by the native people that lived near the falls. Rather he was the first white man to see it.