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"We are our own liberators - ZANLA"
Poster Film - Enlarge image
"We are our own liberators - ZANLA"
- Object:
Poster
- Place of origin:
UK (made)
- Date:
ca. 1976 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Poster Film (designers)
- Materials and Techniques:
colour offset lithograph
- Credit Line:
Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko
- Museum number:
E.1702-2004
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case 3G, shelf DR27
The acronym ZANLA stands for the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army. They waged a guerrilla war for independence against White Rhodesian rule. This poster, with its simple and direct message of defiance, draws on the symbolic colours found in Zimbabwe's national flag. Green symbolises agriculture and African land while yellow (or gold) represents prosperity. Red, meanwhile, signifies the blood which was spilled to secure independence for black Africans.
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