My dissertation examines how throughout Zimbabwe’s modern history belonging to the country has been politically based on belonging to the land either via autochthony or settlement. I put forward that by focusing on movement and travel we can problematize this over-simplified political sense of “national” belonging. Through an analysis of Rhodesian and Zimbabwean works of fiction and non-fiction, I argue that travel makes all belonging unsettled and that this unsettledness can be productive in making us re-think and interrogate “Zimbabwean” and, by extension, “African” identity in a post-colonial, post-essentialist and post-nativist era.  My dissertation is, therefore, necessarily interdisciplinary in nature, using methodologies from history and literature.