It’s rather unfortunate that the only visual reference that most Africans have of their history mostly come from colonial documents, and old paper cuts from the colonial press. Subsequently, figures like Mbuya Nehanda’s medium are only known...
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...
The image of Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana is bitterly etched into the collective consciousness of Zimbabwe. It comes from a photograph that was taken by the British South Africa Company (BSAC) police, who sentenced and executed her without...
POVO Afrika · Pauline - Handikanganwe Mbuya Nehanda
Just a girl in the world and you had to be strong, a warrior, a woman.To be queen in the home and the queen on the...
The Nehanda Re-Imagined initiative is a project to revive and re-imagine depictions and the legacy of Mbuya Nehanda in their plurality and diversity, bringing her to a contemporary setting. There has been much discussion on social media...
That’s it, that’s my take on the Nehanda statue fallout or fall-in. Let’s let the dead die. Let me illustrate something, to help frame my point of view on this. Why does Nehanda matter, to you or...
Charwe Nyakasikana is a Zezuru spirit medium who was born in 1840, in the Chishawasha District of Central Mashonaland. She was a Hera and the daughter of Chitaura, the younger son of Shayachimwe, a late eighteenth-century founder...
When l was creating the artwork l faced this problem- l didn’t know what Nehanda looked like. So l tried to find places to find any information, and photographs of Nehanda. At the end of the research...
The stature done by David Mutasa of Mbuya Nehanda original commissioned by the government was initially released to the public after the President had gone to view it. When it was shared on social media there was...
