My Beautiful Home project 2015, Painted huts of Zimbabwe, by Veronique Attala
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- In the beautiful Matobo hills of Zimbabwe, we organize a competition to reward and encourage the tradition of painted huts
with clay, ashes and charcoal. As for sand castles, the rain washes away the designs of the previous year. Then, after the rains and when the harvest is finished, usually during the months of june-july, the women have time to re-decorate their homes showing real genuine artistic talent, as you will see in this little video. "Kholisa..." (Enjoy, as we say here)
Am from Nigeria, I have not seen any traditional huts built this elaborate. It is beautiful and colorful. It shows what can be done with traditional architecture.
I am lost for words, this is beyond exquisite, I wonder why we have trained our minds to call this architecture primitive? I am so tired of the cement boxes we build these days that suck the life out of us because of population and all. African must go back to the basics, this is where real beauty is.
The way God intended us to live on His Earth. Proudly Zimbabwean.❤
The Ndebele are very very clean and tidy too as well as being creative
Being clean and tidy is in the genes of black South Africans so the Ndebele over there are following their South African roots
Wow. This took me back to my formative years. My mom used to decorate our living area almost the same way, but she was not as good as my aunt in Bale Ha-Manenzhe in the Limpopo valley of South Africa. This is disappearing fast. Thanks for the post. As a budding filmmaker, I am tempted to archive.some of the homes that still decorate this way. Well done!!
Please archive them, as so much of our history can disappear so fast!
This made me proud to be Zimbabwean. Well done to everyone who is involved in this project. God bless. I am so moved. ❤❤❤
Africa is my continent,Zimbabwe is my fav country,i hope to visit one day
I'm absolutely impressed this is all about our culture our music our life our art keep up the good work!!!!!!
👍 how beautiful ! from Korea
Beautiful. I would love to live here even for a day. Am from Kenya and I totally love it
gorgeous, so natural, nothing there to pollute the environment!! well done!!!
I could do with the built in furniture, African people are intelligent and creative.
That song is a killer 🍵
This is beautiful. Zimbabwe most beautiful country I've been to
This is extraordinary. Really showcases the ingenuity of Africa.
Beautiful singing at 5.10, really soul searching. Home is where the heart is. 😭😭😭. I miss motherland.
I dream of a large round house with separate spaces for sleeping, eating, socialising, a large yellow front door, six glass windows, on two or three floor levels, large staircase connects the levels and flat round roof. Would they build this architecture in Ghana, I wonder?
Its all possible
This is beautiful, I'm proud of you ndebeles😊😊
Just loved this I am so proud of the NDEBELE PEOPLE.
This video has made my day. My southern family showcasing pure art.
Beautifully side of zimbabwe.so refreshing rural and peacefully love it .
Absulutly gorgeous, well done our people. Wouldnt mind house like this myself.
Absolutely beautiful i got some ideas for our home through you. Thank you for sharing this beauty with the world.
That's so amazing. Thank you for all the people that are participating within the project. God bless ya'll. 😘👌
How beautiful, they reflect the unique artisitic expression of the home owners!
Proudly zimbabwean. Kuhle lokhu
Absolutely beautiful I can't wait to go to my village
The Africa we missed
Lindo, lindo! Parabéns ❤❤
I remember Doo this in Kenya. With nature made colors. ❤❤❤
Wow! This is so gorgeous! I will definitely copy this for my rural home.
Its soo beautiful,i love the look,very real and natural
Waaaaa bakwethu,,,proud to be a Ndebele,,,,,miss home a lot,,kuhle lokhu 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Similar to BaSotho homes. I grew up with such artistic homes and cabinetry
These are by far the most beautiful kitchens in the world 🤌❤️
Very nice to see the creativity and smiling faces of zimbabweans. Huts in matabele land nicer than mashona land!!!!
unfortunately, I don't know the homes in Mashonaland very much
man this continent is blessed with all these resources
Not really what suchs is before machinery you could not farm central Africa as well the tse tse fly kills cattle and horses
so how did our ancestors survive before colonialism and machinery/you probably mean industrialisation. life in Africa only began with machinery or what???
It’s the promised land from God
Absolutely darling home beautiful and I love the lace doilies on the coffee table in the drawing room
Simple living not harmful to the environment !
Except for the desolation of vegetation around the huts from the goats
These homes are gorgeous. I wouldn't mind having one as a guest house. Are they made from cob?
I love the beautiful homes but I must confess I come back for that beautiful tune at the beginning ," Ayikho einye ndawo enje ngekhaya"
I wish there was a link to the music. I don't know how to get this music.
Wooow this is amazing will do my rural home
Far from zim, and watching this it's I am home special the kitchen and zim kitchen ware thank you for sharing
I just miss home seeing this video. Proudly Zimbabwean
It's a great World, God has given to us.. Thank God
Beautiful kakhulu siyabonga ngobuhle bekhaya lethu
Kuhle!! Very uplifting 👏👏👏👏😊😊😊
So why are rural Afrikans killing themselves to to raise meager funds just to construct small piddly conventional brick houses when they can build palaces and castles from material available to them.. 🤔
Beautiful homes. Proudly zimbo
Beautiful houses,nice video.
Veronica
Can you make it again but explain how to mix the mud for the walls, how to thread the grass and how to make the paint.
Intend to build a community center in US for African Americans to retreat from hostile environment
Duniya ka sabse sundar video hai very very very very good very beautiful
Wauh so beautiful 😍
it is beautiful. i like the design. just cool.
wooow viva matebeleland viva 😚
So beautiful i am proud of my country wow
I just watched this for the second time. These women are so talented!!!! The designs are absolutely stunning.
By the way, I saw a bucket of water in a couple of homes, and it made me wonder how far the well is. Was the bike the first prize? Do the women know how to ride a bike?
iloirtimusiikista hello, the well can be a few kms away. The plough is the first prize. The young women can ride bikes, specially girls, but it is mainly men
@@zouero Thanks for your reply. I'm curious: How difficult would it be to get a well to this village, so that the women (I assume) would not have to walk several kms to get water? (I'm exhausted just thinking about it.)
@@iloirtimusiikista even when the well is at the homestead we still do buckets so that we don't have to be constantly running back and forth to the well😊
@@natashamakiwa8657 Of course, I didn't think of that! If they don't get running water any time soon, it would be good if they could have large buckets with wheels. I've seen them. Stay healthy!
That's beautiful 😍 ❤ 💕 💜
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Vernacular architecture is so gorgeous
First class video
So beautiful
Home sweet home love this video
Very beautiful , nice to see
Reminds me of Basotho mud huts in South Africa and Lesotho
How delightful! Thank you for the video!
I love you Zimbabwe❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Beautiful !!
We Wuz Kangz
My ancestors built Winchester Cathedral 1000 years ago when you were building these huts. 1000 years later you are still building huts
It is not about building the most extraordinary cathedral in over 100 years with thousands of people but about making the most humble home into a piece of true Art using the surrounding materials, with 1 person working hard during a month, knowing that this will last only until the rains wash it away. A 1000 years ago, around Winchester, most builders lived in poor houses which have not survived the time, but I doubt they were very appealing. Ugly constructions with the excuse of poverty are common features of this world, in all countries. Let's hope that some will take example to the people of Zimbabwe and make their home an artwork, no matter what, to make this world more beautiful, also for the pleasure of people like you who might come in this part of the world.
@@zouero you sound like an oblivious tourist.
Only morons dont see beauty... FYI some built pyramids while you where still in your cave!
STFU!!!!
And what did you build?
There's no place like home
Beautiful
I love you Africa .
Very beauty house electric power is nothing
Nice decorations
Beautiful indeed
Can someone please tell me who the singer is in the beginning of the video? Thank you
Ooh my!!
Amazingly beautiful
Wow the shelves look strong
All these colours is just soil we dig from the land nothing is bought all colours
What the name of the songs at the end please could someone tell me?
I love this! How much is it roughly to build this if you don't mind me asking. I'm trying to make something similar back home.
Hello, where are you? In Zimbabwe, you would have to provide the materials, such as home made bricks, poles and thatch. Plus the labour, for the building, then for the deco
@@zouero I'm planning on building one in Somalia. I don't know how to get the materials but i'm sure the people are going to be more than happy to point me to the right direction. I just need a estimate average price to build it. That would be labour and materials. Just a rough estimate. Thank you for responding.
@@KhalidAlirunsheeg in Zimbabwe, it could be around 600/700 dollars minimum. I have no idea of the prices in Somalia. But I wish you all the best in your project
@@zouero Thank you so much Veronique. I'd love to keep in contact if you have an instagram
@@KhalidAlirunsheeg mybeautifulhomezimbabwe
Beautiful 💞
Nice house keep it up
Awesome!!!
So ब्यूटीफुल विलेज
Very beautiful similar to Zululand homestead in Durban
but without painting: everything is in clay, ashes, charcoal
@@zouero Yes! We have always cared for our environment. We love nature. Unfortunately the world thinks differently. We are uncivilized people
Originally Ndebeles migrated from south Africa under Mzilikazi. They were known as the Khumalos. They are the Ngunis so most of their culture is similar to the Zulu culture
Thandie Jambawa Absolutely, but have they kept the true tradition, which is no paint, only clay, ashes, charcoal ?
@@thandiwejambawa7827 very true
eshh ngaze ngakhanuka ikhaya bakithi
How can I achieve one like these
Wow beautiful, do they speak isiZulu In Zimbabwe?
They speak isiNdebele. The language is very similar to isiZulu because most of the Ndebeles in Zimbabwe originated from KZN, they left the area with Mzilikazi in the 1800s and settled in Zimbabwe.
What's the song title?
How do you paint, I would also like to try
kuhle kakhulu siyabona
😍🥰
What is the cost of the house?
Wow
beautiful
Title of the frst song please.
Ayikh' indawo by Jeys Marabini
Jays Marabini "Ekhaya"
Ms home
❤