freedom of expression in culture has profound traditions in struggles for emancipation in the formerly colonized world, including zimbabwe, from which traditions pamberi trust and book café draw inspiration. this principle is enshrined in the new constitution of zimbabwe (2013), and features centrally in the unesco protocol on ‘the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions’ (2005), sometimes called the most important cultural agreement of the last 50 years, since it emphasizes protection of our cultural assets from abuse by multi-national corporate power. zimbabwe is signatory (2008), alongside 129 countries.