Geography
Mosi-oa-Tunya: The Smoke That Thunders
The story of Victoria Falls
Tendai Chikafu 13 min 4.8Mar 9, 2025
About this story
Long before it bore a British queen's name, the Kololo people called it 'the smoke that thunders'. This is the story of how the Zambezi carved one of the world's largest waterfalls, and what it means to the people who live beside it.
ZambeziNatural WondersZimbabwe
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Narrator: A kilometre wide and over a hundred metres tall, the falls announce themselves long before you see them.
Narrator: The spray rises so high it can be seen from fifty kilometres away.
Narrator: To the Kololo and Lozi peoples, it was — and remains — sacred ground.
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Tendai Chikafu
Zimbabwe
Geographer mapping Africa's natural wonders for general audiences.
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