Unsettled in Zimbabwe: How the absence of history and heritage from public spaces points to a deeper unease

“But the most curious thing for us about Harare (especially since so many of our number were scholars of southern African liberation movements) was the lack of visible history in its streets. It’s not a city that wears its heritage on its sleeve the way Johannesburg does: There are no blue plaques and almost no monuments or museums that tell the story of Zimbabwe’s history.”