Background
Zimbabwe is a small country in Africa located above South Africa and surrounded by the countries of Botswana and Mozambique. Zimbabwe's colonial history starts with Christian Missionaries and the introduction of colonialism by the British in the 1880's. These cultures brought new languages, new ideas, new commodities and many more things. But the missionaries also saw all of their culture as barbaric pagan demonic and evil or at least their religion. Ideas like this lead to things like the Moffat Treaty and the Rudd Concession being signed by chiefs without them understanding it. These "treaties" gave land rights to a powerful white miner named Cecil Rhodes. After that colonists spread over the country in search for gold and diamonds, most of them were resisted by natives.
Current affairs
Today, Zimbabwe faces many problems including the upcoming elections and the ridiculously low government balance (link). Did you click on that link? no? well go do it .That's right, only $217 in their national funds. Despite that, the event the media is covering is the elections and the two candidates Robert Mugabe and Jacob Zuma.