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Zions Children is an African family drama that highlights the crisis of gender roles in land ownership that precipitated the adoption of the land inheritance law allowing women to inherit land, centering the fragility of economic systems among the Kenyan/African modern nuclear family, where the surviving wife and children of the Mwela family find themselves victims of weaponized culture by their predatory inlaw.
The family struggles for survival against the backdrop of rural vs urban identity politics. Land has been such a contentious issue for Africans and the Carribean Diaspora. Given the contentious cardinal sin of land theft during colonial times, its self defeating that land theft happens among African and black diaspora communities, perpetrated by their own.
Zion’s Children explores the rural-urban dissasociative cultural rift among African amd Black diaspora communities through the generational trauma that impacts the children of the Mwela family when culture is used as a weapon in land theft, the pitfalls that befall them, and the lengths that they and their friends must go to, to right wrongs and reclaim what is theirs.
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