Majiri

Majiri is a stone-walled settlement southeast of Great Zimbabwe, built in the same broad architectural tradition. Its dry-stone walls form enclosures of different sizes, recalling the places where households and leaders lived among the hills of the plateau. In the surrounding country, oral histories remember the Duma confederacy and the authority of chiefs including Murinye and Nyajena. Majiri belonged to a landscape in which stone-built centres stood among many smaller communities.