Kirsty Coventry from Zimbabwe?

Question

Kirsty Coventry is an olympic swimmer for Zimbabwe. That country is in africa and most people in africa are black. I'm not trying to be racist but they showed a clip of her home country and she was the only white girl or person there... how can that be???

Answer 1

Are you serious?

A lot of African countries with a colonial heritage have white people in their population.

Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, Kenya, Botswana, all have small white populations.

All these countries were colonies of various European nations. So a lot of Europeans settled in these African countries in the past. When they got independence, naturally most Europeans left. But some still chose to stay.

Answer 2

alot of African (mainly south) nations were once colonies to European Nations in the early 20th century ...thus there being White Africans  

Answer 3

i was thinking the same thing.  i know what you mean.

Answer 4

Zimbabwe used to be Rhodesia which used to be a British Colony like Kenya, South Africa etc.

Until 1980 White Minority rule was the law in Rhodesia then the black population won by revolution the government and change the country's name to Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe came to power.

He still holds onto Power by corruption and violence.

So yes there are a few Million White Zimbabweans

Answer 5

I'm confused, I'm not getting your question

Answer 6

europeans settled there her family was one of them

Answer 7

Please get off Yahoo! and go get yourself an education.