<span>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. 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.</span>
