My Beautiful Home project 2015, Painted huts of Zimbabwe, by Veronique Attala

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)

[@kathyohara6658]

The way God intended us to live on His Earth. Proudly Zimbabwean.❤

[@oluwoleolubajo3340]

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.

[@samwarmate9291]

The Ndebele are very very clean and tidy too as well as being creative

[@satura4113]

Being clean and tidy is in the genes of black South Africans so the Ndebele over there are following their South African roots

[@lucyjohn7904]

Africa is my continent,Zimbabwe is my fav country,i hope to visit one day

[@thivhilaelimakatu6642]

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!!

[@mizzpoetrics]

Please archive them, as so much of our history can disappear so fast!

[@mambokadzi3755]

This made me proud to be Zimbabwean. Well done to everyone who is involved in this project. God bless. I am so moved. ❤❤❤

[@mudhouses]

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.

[@vagus1299]

👍 how beautiful ! from Korea

[@sengiga337]

I'm absolutely impressed this is all about our culture our music our life our art keep up the good work!!!!!!

[@emmabell3399]

Beautiful. I would love to live here even for a day. Am from Kenya and I totally love it

[@debzthomson9671]

gorgeous, so natural, nothing there to pollute the environment!! well done!!!

[@crabbypatty3490]

I could do with the built in furniture, African people are intelligent and creative. That song is a killer 🍵

[@mambokadzi3755]

Beautiful singing at 5.10, really soul searching. Home is where the heart is. 😭😭😭. I miss motherland.

[@ceciliamanyande9427]

This is beautiful, I'm proud of you ndebeles😊😊

[@EbimoboWObasi]

This is extraordinary. Really showcases the ingenuity of Africa.

[@davidmukwevho1462]

Beautifully side of zimbabwe.so refreshing rural and peacefully love it .

[@africanadage852]

This video has made my day. My southern family showcasing pure art.

[@rabeccamhandire6253]

Proudly zimbabwean. Kuhle lokhu

[@tombimashri8149]

Absulutly gorgeous, well done our people. Wouldnt mind house like this myself.

[@marirletematos9561]

Lindo, lindo! Parabéns ❤❤

[@EK1626]

How beautiful, they reflect the unique artisitic expression of the home owners!

[@Bianca.Nceeee]

Absolutely beautiful I can't wait to go to my village

[@mileniagusmao4350]

That's so amazing. Thank you for all the people that are participating within the project. God bless ya'll. 😘👌

[@keziasimpson7783]

Wow! This is so gorgeous! I will definitely copy this for my rural home.

[@ReinaAfricana]

Absolutely beautiful i got some ideas for our home through you. Thank you for sharing this beauty with the world.

[@scovianambozo8104]

Its soo beautiful,i love the look,very real and natural

[@maslinechachona7500]

Wooow this is amazing will do my rural home

[@simoniomwaminati6937]

The Africa we missed

[@sqrd3536]

Kuhle!! Very uplifting 👏👏👏👏😊😊😊

[@alexbimpeh-segu3516]

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?

[@michaelmaps2004]

Its all possible

[@treasurebanda3661]

Similar to BaSotho homes. I grew up with such artistic homes and cabinetry

[@jannysibanda157]

Waaaaa bakwethu,,,proud to be a Ndebele,,,,,miss home a lot,,kuhle lokhu 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@asa1973100]

Absolutely darling home beautiful and I love the lace doilies on the coffee table in the drawing room

[@beautyadaarewa4982]

Far from zim, and watching this it's I am home special the kitchen and zim kitchen ware thank you for sharing

[@pamelajudithrwanyarare8429]

These are by far the most beautiful kitchens in the world 🤌❤️

[@siraswatichhachhan1733]

Beautiful houses,nice video.

[@shupimurambidzi1386]

Beautiful homes. Proudly zimbo

[@adewalehanson]

it is beautiful. i like the design. just cool.

[@soinda87]

I remember Doo this in Kenya. With nature made colors. ❤❤❤

[@melulekinyoni5074]

Beautiful kakhulu siyabonga ngobuhle bekhaya lethu

[@beeshaa8911]

I just miss home seeing this video. Proudly Zimbabwean

[@brumbleyo]

Beautiful !!

[@navinmari3716]

First class video

[@iloirtimusiikista]

How delightful! Thank you for the video!

[@sazinindlovu9600]

So beautiful i am proud of my country wow

[@nkosinothandophiri8507]

That's beautiful 😍 ❤ 💕 💜

[@schoolboy1325]

These homes are gorgeous. I wouldn't mind having one as a guest house. Are they made from cob?

[@preciousndlovu5881]

wooow viva matebeleland viva 😚

[@memorymalunga670]

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.

[@florencenuru4687]

Wauh so beautiful 😍

[@newworldmedianewworldmedia3388]

Simple living not harmful to the environment !

[@zipline5442]

Except for the desolation of vegetation around the huts from the goats

[@patiencebekezela8909]

Home sweet home love this video

[@sunithac5498]

Very beautiful , nice to see

[@susuilu]

man this continent is blessed with all these resources

[@palebluedot7435]

Not really what suchs is before machinery you could not farm central Africa as well the tse tse fly kills cattle and horses

[@susuilu]

so how did our ancestors survive before colonialism and machinery/you probably mean industrialisation. life in Africa only began with machinery or what???

[@jswizzle782]

It’s the promised land from God

[@HattieMcDanielonaMoon]

Vernacular architecture is so gorgeous

[@munnnaansari3463]

Duniya ka sabse sundar video hai very very very very good very beautiful

[@ahadsvillagefarmsgardens3993]

It's a great World, God has given to us.. Thank God

[@juellzzdrizzy]

Amazingly beautiful

[@amitpatel-tk6py]

So beautiful

[@janemapfunde2665]

Beautiful indeed

[@KatlehoMolekoSterkspruit]

Reminds me of Basotho mud huts in South Africa and Lesotho

[@ManJay3220]

Awesome!!!

[@nkosingiphilendlovu1463]

Beautiful 💞

[@mariamadrawska9154]

Pozdrawiam serdecznie z POLSKI❤

[@sunandthesoil3736]

Beautiful

[@diversitylove5460]

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

[@iloirtimusiikista]

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?

[@zouero]

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

[@iloirtimusiikista]

@@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.)

[@natashamakiwa8657]

@@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😊

[@iloirtimusiikista]

@@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!

[@Miurren]

I love you Zimbabwe❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Exiria]

Wow the shelves look strong

[@mandykheswa5014]

There's no place like home

[@reubenhlongwane415]

Nice house keep it up

[@jimcrow7177]

We Wuz Kangz

[@javadmoghadam8182]

I love you Africa .

[@reubenhlongwane415]

Nice decorations

[@teresanyaigoti4076]

beautiful

[@984raymondv1]

What the name of the songs at the end please could someone tell me?

[@guneshwartiwari4344]

So ब्यूटीफुल विलेज

[@ramasamyramasamy3444]

Very beauty house electric power is nothing

[@charityncube3378]

Ooh my!!

[@ThePrincipality-dy1iq]

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.. 🤔

[@amiroja8834]

Wow

[@carolinencube2696]

❤

[@ntandoyenkosijewelmpofu8808]

eshh ngaze ngakhanuka ikhaya bakithi

[@shirleyalabama1794]

Can someone please tell me who the singer is in the beginning of the video? Thank you

[@vidmore2180]

How can I achieve one like these

[@stuartschoultz663]

Very nice to see the creativity and smiling faces of zimbabweans. Huts in matabele land nicer than mashona land!!!!

[@zouero]

unfortunately, I don't know the homes in Mashonaland very much

[@HotRodNisse1]

😍🥰

[@simoniomwaminati6937]

How do you paint, I would also like to try

[@KhalidAlirunsheeg]

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.

[@zouero]

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

[@KhalidAlirunsheeg]

@@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.

[@zouero]

@@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

[@KhalidAlirunsheeg]

@@zouero Thank you so much Veronique. I'd love to keep in contact if you have an instagram

[@zouero]

@@KhalidAlirunsheeg mybeautifulhomezimbabwe

[@judithndlovu9291]

Ms home

[@nana_cele]

Wow beautiful, do they speak isiZulu In Zimbabwe?

[@nomahope3182]

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.

[@hildanyambura1641]

What's the song title?

[@zipline5442]

My ancestors built Winchester Cathedral 1000 years ago when you were building these huts. 1000 years later you are still building huts

[@zouero]

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.

[@zipline5442]

@@zouero you sound like an oblivious tourist.

[@MICHELATTALA]

Only morons dont see beauty... FYI some built pyramids while you where still in your cave!

[@Boomslang1]

STFU!!!!

[@kiso-em3px]

And what did you build?

[@user-wd1nq9fv3f]

All these colours is just soil we dig from the land nothing is bought all colours

[@azazelka607]

🌞💐🌞👍🌹🕊

[@erenesenters-muiruri5522]

What is the cost of the house?

[@thembadlamini4025]

kuhle kakhulu siyabona

[@glorytoyahzulu6229]

Very beautiful similar to Zululand homestead in Durban

[@zouero]

but without painting: everything is in clay, ashes, charcoal

[@glorytoyahzulu6229]

@@zouero Yes! We have always cared for our environment. We love nature. Unfortunately the world thinks differently. We are uncivilized people

[@thandiwejambawa7827]

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

[@zouero]

Thandie Jambawa Absolutely, but have they kept the true tradition, which is no paint, only clay, ashes, charcoal ?

[@isaacshoko1895]

@@thandiwejambawa7827 very true

[@daintyflygirl4va]

Title of the frst song please.

[@nkosiemahlangu1158]

Ayikh' indawo by Jeys Marabini

[@zouero]

Jays Marabini "Ekhaya"

[@kingfrenk5230]

sihami afrika hata kwa dawa

[@Cheezyb34tz]

Hebu wewe.