Immortalizing “Buried Memories”: Photographs of the Gukurahundi Online

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dc.contributor.authorTshuma, L.A.
dc.contributor.authorNdlovu, M.
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-08T09:10:58Z
dc.date.available2025-09-08T09:10:58Z
dc.date.issued2020-11-10
dc.description.abstractThis article examines how photographs displayed online preserve, mediate and circulate memories of the Gukurahundi “genocide.” The Gukurahundi denotes mass killings of more than 20,000 predominantly Ndebele-speaking people in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces orchestrated by the Zimbabwean government between 1983 and 1987. Many of the victims consider this to be a genocide, but their memories are subject to repression under the current regime. In this context, online news sites serve as alternative spaces in which knowledge of this traumatic past is transmitted through photographs. Anchored in an understanding that photographs constitute a “mirror with a memory,” this article uses critical discourse analysis to analyse selected images from Bulawayo24.com news website. It finds that Bulawayo24.com serves as an arena for preserving and circulating Gukurahundi memories by enabling audiences to bear witness to their experience-as-genocide. The images reinforce human rights discourses, contributing to the growing calls for justice, commemoration, and memorialization of Gukurahundi victims.
dc.identifier.citationTshuma, L.A. and Ndlovu, M., 2022. Immortalizing “buried memories”: Photographs of the Gukurahundi online. Journal of Genocide Research, 24(3), pp.380-401.
dc.identifier.issn1469-9494
dc.identifier.urihttp://196.220.97.103:4000/handle/123456789/1034
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherJournal of Genocide Research
dc.titleImmortalizing “Buried Memories”: Photographs of the Gukurahundi Online
dc.typeArticle
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