At the turn of the 20th century, the Zimbabwean government implemented a land redistribution program to rectify colonial-era disparities. Despite being remembered as a hallmark of the decolonial efforts spearheaded by President Robert Mugabe, this article argues the land question in Zimbabwe has always been and steered by the masses in their various constituencies— even when the government appeared reluctant toward reform. This is best represented through popular post-independence cultural expressions, including song, literature, poetry, and theater that have centered land in their negotiations of what it means to be Zimbabwean.<br><br>In this article, I argue these artistic-cultural spaces are instructive in reconfiguring and recentering the popular roots of land reform in post-2000 Zimbabwe at a time when most of the scholarship tends to simplistically conflate land reform with Mugabeism
