Preben Kaarsholm writes that both colonial and black nationalist groups invoked Great Zimbabwe's past to support their vision of the country's present, through the media of popular history and of fiction.
Preben Kaarsholm əktab as grouɗtan w ən ɣ ərman əd w ən kalakal kawalnen aɣran ye awadokayan daɣ Grand Zimbabwe fal adidhilan ahanay nasan alwaqendaɣ daɣ akal, daɣ ƭəśiba tan tanfust tatiwazayat əd dayha bahu.