Samtale om MATABELELAND

Talk about MATABELELAND: 40 years of Repression and Rights Activism in Zimbabwe

📅 Tuesday 21 October at 20:45–21:30 | 📍Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31 | 🎟️ Free entry

Following the screening of MATABELELAND at 19:15 in KP10. 

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In 1983, military forces under the command of Zimbabwe's then - Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, carried out a massacre in Zimbabwe's Matebeleland, killing more than twenty thousand people. More than forty years on, the country has yet to reckon with this genocidal crime, leaving those who lost loved ones to find closure on their own. The documentary MATABELELAND uses the life and experiences of Chris, who is still haunted by the ghost of his murdered father, to depict the lasting effects of the massacre. With her first feature length documentary, Nyasha Kadandara has made a personal and empathic film about national and generational trauma – and how to make peace with the past.

In this event, which follows immediately after the screening, you are invited to a conversation about the Guhurakundi massacre, the current political situation in Matableleland and the Midlands, and the state of human rights in Zimbabwe.

In the panel:

Wesley Maraire – Zimbabwean legal scholar, now working at University of Bergen

Matthew Gichohi – Researcher at CMI – part of the Zimbawe team of the RightAct—Rights Activism in Repressive Conditions research project

Lise Rakner – Professor, Department of Government UiB, on the RightAct Zimbabwe team

Siri Gloppen – Professor, Department of Government UiB, on the RightAct Zimbabwe team 

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The event is a collaboration between BIFF, LawTransform and the RightsAct research project (CMI/LawTransform). 

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Read more about the film