Jesper Houborg

WE ARE STILL HERE


Zimbabwe.

“If you are a maid or a gardener you are still dependent on a master. That kind of mentality ruined us. For the last many years we have been colonised by our own. It’s our generation's challenge to change that” says Stanley, a young entrepreneur, and farmer from Harare.

A country, known for Victoria Falls, Safari Parks, decades of economic hardship and political oppression under Robert Mugabe’s 37 years of dictatorship, and one of the last countries in Africa to gain independence in 1980.

WE ARE STILL HERE is a visual investigation into the collective spirit - zeitgeist - of a young nation highly underreported due to a tightly closed media space. Recently in July 2018, after Mugabe’s fall, a new government took over giving hope for change. However, the latest economic development has challenged this belief.

This project is driven by the curiosity to understand the post-colonial legacy and identity by diving into the world of everyday life in urban parts of Zimbabwe.