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Great Zimbabwe's Mambo Nemakonde and the Poison Ordeal of 1297
In Episode 100, Lucas and Luna return to the reign of Mambo Nemakonde, but from a fresh angle: the elaborate system of legal trials and oath-taking that held Great Zimbabwe together. While earlier episodes touched on the poison ordeal of succession, this episode dives into a specific case from 1297, when a prominent dzimbabwe headman named Chisunga was accused of witchcraft and forced to undergo the mupfura poison test. Lucas explains how the nganga administered the ordeal, the role of the svikiro spirit medium in interpreting the results, and the political fallout when Chisunga survived —…
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