About the Journal

The Zimbabwe International Journal of Culture and Heritage (ZIJCH) attempts to create an interactive platform on issues to do with heritage in the African continent and beyond. This journal takes cognisance of the fact that Africa is endowed with rich cultural and diverse natural heritage systems which are key components for national building and restoration of the people’s pride, identities, values and indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) which were seriously eroded during centuries of colonial interference and effects of globalisation.

 

The journal tries to provide another platform for research that will provide Africans with an opportunity to benefit from their heritage initiatives and communicate them appropriately for their preservation and conservation. Heritage is the full range of our inherited traditions, history, practices, buildings, monuments, objects, and culture.  Heritage includes, but is much more than preserving, excavating, displaying, restoring a collection of old things or reconstruction of histories.  It is both tangible and intangible, in the sense that, ideas and memories, of songs, recipes, language, dances, traditions, rituals, ceremonies and many other initiatives about who we are and how we identify ourselves, are as important as historical buildings and archaeological sites.