ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on one of the most controversial topics associated with Third Chimurenga land reforms since the turn of the century – the “colour of belonging”. It discusses the immediate question is what is the film about and how does it become so critical to the discourse on shifting notions of nation, belonging/citizenship, and the politics of the race-inspired Third Chimurenga. The chapter examines some of the ways in which unconventional forms of life narratives, particularly the documentary, add certain aesthetic, political, and discursive nuances to what the genre can do for its user. There has been an apparent hesitation in political, anthropological, historical, and philosophical circles to use the term “racism” to refer to the kind of prejudice that results from black people discriminating against white people. Racism is evoked through the character of Chamada as a form of racial prejudice in which Campbell and white farmers are discriminated against, overpowered and dispossessed by a majority race.
