I want my art to explore the fantasy of what if we treated women the same way we treated men. Would ambuya Nehanda have waited years to get the recognition she deserves? This painting is part of...
From an early age, Nehanda would have shown signs of the gift of a warrior she was to become. In the way she would have talked, how she would have made sense of the world and beyond...
“Blasphemous!” My husband teases me about the stained glass style I have chosen for this piece on Mbuya Nehanda. We both share the understanding that comes from a religious upbringing. I grew up in a Catholic family,...
My creation is a concept, motivated by the need to simplify the imagery of Nyakasikana. Creating an icon or symbol like depiction. A graphic that is easy to apply or re-render for any...
It was only much later when I was an adult did I come to the knowledge that Mbuya Nehanda was actually a spirit who possessed Charwe Nyakasikana. All Along I just thought that Mbuya Nehanda was her...
My artwork (Interrogated and Tortured) tells about the struggle and tragedy that Mbuya Nehanda the female Shona mhondoro faced during her lifetime, she was a spirit medium (svikiro) of the Zezuru people. In my artwork there are...
Mbuya Nehanda struggled and lived a poor life for us to have peace and prosperity. She had a calling, she had a gift and she didn’t choose to live for herself but for the nation to have...
Mbuya Nehanda played a major role in the liberation of Zimbabwe thus to me, her statue is more or less like the famous Statue of liberty with just a few missing features. The artwork spots Mbuya Nehanda...
A brief backgroundI was born on 20 August, 1991 in Marondera town. The 5th child in a family of six, I attended R.G Mugabe before being transferred to Godfrey Huggins primary school through the influence of people...
Njelele Art Station is an eclectic, Bohemian rhapsody of sorts neatly tucked away from the hustle and bustle of central Harare city’s downtown melee. It’s right at the head of one of the city’s busiest thoroughfares, Kaguvi Street...
