In his Chapter ‘Cultural heritage sites and contemporary uses: finding a balance between monumentality and intangibility in Eastern Zimbabwe’ Njabulo Chipangura argued that ‘within communities, monuments have bigger biographies that transcend beyond their physical aspects…. The advent of scientific heritage management systems destabilised this status quo and communities have contested their exclusion.’ In the context of the African view of the world discuss the problems of heritage conservation in Eastern Zimbabwe and how they were resolved.