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Mugabe and the White African
Mugabe and the White African
Andrew Thompson, Lucy Bailey / UK / 2009 / 91 min.
Discrimination against whites is an unfamiliar concept to most Americans and Europeans. For thousands of white farmers living in Zimbabwe, it is a harsh reality. Since the turn of the millennium, the humanitarian situation in one of the poorest countries in Africa has deteriorated rapidly with the introduction of land reforms by the local dictator Robert Mugabe which have enabled hundreds of thousands of hectares of land to be seized from prosperous white-owned farms under the slogan "Zimbabwe for Zimbabweans." Mike Campbell's family came to Zimbabwe from Britain thirty years ago, and they live peacefully on their farm with five hundred indigenous people. He has decided to defy Mugabe in a court of law. The Campbells refuse to give up the fight even after they are brutally attacked, and they hope that the verdict of an international tribunal could set an important precedent. The atmosphere of this breathtaking film about the unequal clash between human rights and racial hatred is underscored by gripping music. The picture made it onto the short-list for this year's Oscar nominations.
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