Filmed in three rural schools in Zimbabwe, this is a portrayal of a new educational system, born during the liberation war in refugee camps in Mozambique, Zambia, and Botswana.

Back home in Zimbabwe, the former refugees, now students, have built new schools and are participating in the building of a new society. The central theme of NKULELEKO MEANS FREEDOM is education with production, a system of education that combines theory with practice and meant to develop a new "integrated" person as well as to dignify manual labor. It is also meant to nurture a student and a citizen who is self reliant, not just a consumer but a producer too.

The political and philosophic basis for this new educational system is discussed in the film by Education Minister Dzingai Mutumbka, and Prime Minister Robert Mugabe.

"A film record of one country's efforts to bring a better way of life to its people through education."—Landers Film Reviews