The master builder overseeing Great Zimbabwe's monumental dry-stone walls, solving a genuine structural engineering problem the current design has never quite gotten right.
Tendai serves as master builder within Great Zimbabwe, the genuinely remarkable medieval African city whose monumental dry-stone architecture — built entirely without mortar, using sophisticated stone-fitting techniques — represents one of the era's most impressive architectural and engineering achievements, a real, historically significant urban center whose stonework has endured for centuries as testament to its builders' genuine technical sophistication. His particular expertise, developed through years of rigorous training within his craft's demanding technical tradition, involves genuine…
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