Zimbabwe’s currency situation often confuses strangers and diasporians. Sometimes even locals themselves are confused. How did we end up with effectively over 5 currencies in use with about at least three local currencies each with it’s own values and quirks. We did attempt to explain this in our long read titled: The Kingdom of Funny Money. But serial entrepreneur Kuda Musasiwa has done one better. He has come up with a funny but educational video on the issue.

2 yes ago today I made and posted this video. It now needs a part 2: when cows are banned , reinstated through bureau de changes , which lasted a month, ecoGoats suspended etc etc. it needs a whole sequel. And then they say invest in Zimbabwe. Nxa.

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— K (@begottensun) February 26, 2021

Using clever analogies the video explains how we got to today from the relative financial calm we experienced through out the GNU period. It has indeed been a tumultuous 4 or so years with the last of the bond notes dying last year when people roundly rejected the $5 ZWL bond note, the last of the Bond currency family. But we also saw the banning and unbanning of the US dollar and claims that we were de-dollarising even though we are not.