Quote of the day...ok! a littlebit more than a quote: I was the archaeologist stationed at Great Zimbabwe. I was told by the then-director of the Museums and Monuments organisation to be extremely careful about talking to the press about the origins of the [Great] Zimbabwe state. I was told that the museum service was in a difficult situation, that the government was pressurising them to withhold the correct information. Censorship of guidebooks, museum displays, school textbooks, radio programmes, newspapers and films was a daily occurrence. Once a member of the Museum Board of Trustees threatened me with losing my job if I said publicly that blacks had built Zimbabwe. He said it was okay to say the yellow people had built it, but I wasnt allowed to mention radio carbon dates... It was the first time since Germany in the thirties that archaeology has been so directly censored. -Paul Sinclair ( Archeologist )
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:12:40 +0000
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