🇿🇼The Bag on my Back | Witness

Newly-liberated with productive farms and an education system that was the envy of its neighbours, Zimbabwe in the early 1980s was a land of plenty. Within one person’s childhood all that changed. Filmmaker Tapiwa Chipfupa returns to the country of her birth to understand why the catastrophe happened. Guided by a box of old family photographs and phone calls to her parents who are in exile in the UK, she traces the story of her family’s life across Zimbabwe and the parallel story of the decline and collapse of the country. Told from the perspective of a middle class African, this is a story of remembrance, of coming to terms with exile and change, and a reminder of the need to guard and protect hard-won freedoms.

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