Song Unburied

Song Unburied, is an intergenerational story of re-memory, re-membering and reparation following the troubled spirit of the British Museum’s newly appointed First Black Curator, Rambisayi Mangosho, as she discovers the bones of anti-colonial heroine Mbuya Nehanda in its basement. Just before Rambi begins her new appointment at the Museum, her grandmother — the only one who knew what to do with her troubling dreams — passes. Unable to return to Zimbabwe to bury her grandmother, Rambi buries herself in the “diversity and inclusion” work of the Museum which has cynically hired her in the wake of historic protest and contestation.
As she begins work on the Great African Civilizations exhibition, she finds solace and guidance in the company of Tsitsi, a war veteran who has been the Museum’s caretaker since gaining asylum in the UK.