Nehanda Re-Imagined

Mapfupa Angu

Mapfupa Angu achamukaAsi zvichida asina nyamaZvichida achamukaAsi anenge asisina moyo Hushingi ibesanwaRekutya nehutsinye.Mhirizhonga yakashatiraPakuti haikusiye wakadaro. Mapfupa Angu achamukaAsi zvichida asina nyamaZvichida achamukaAsi anenge asisina pfungwa Ruvengo ihosha...

Charwe Was Not A Medium

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...

How Mbuya Nehanda Became Privileged As The Icon Of Our Collective Ethnic Spiritual Identity

Charwe Nayakasikana, the Zezuru spirit medium of Mazowe popularly known as Mbuya Nehanda is arguably one of the most debated personalities of her era. Her profile is the subject of various interpretations, constantly redacted to suit contemporary...

Charwe Typeface

Charwe typeface is a modern display futuristic typeface. The typeface is an imagination of what a modern-day typeface would look like if our culture played a central role in the digital world we live in now. Charwe...

The Woman Who Refused To Change Her Name

“This job called greatness, you don’t choose it, You don’t pursue it, It comes to you like a Thief in the night and grips you onThe chest, right on your dear life.In a nutshell this job called greatness You don’t...

Interrogated And Tortured

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...

Mai Vemwana

NehandaCharwe NyakasikanaIs a name l feel like l have knownFor ages,Or maybe forever! She is a woman,As l am a woman. She is a symbol,Whose storyGrew in me a rebellious nature.

Nehanda

POVO Afrika · Raven Duchess - Nehanda Hmmm Haaa Hmmm haaa  Ancient one spirit spirit whisperer  Lead your people lead your people Wise one spirit...

The Heroine Footprints

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...

The Gidi (Gun) Uprising

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...
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When Opportunists Borrow The Faces Of Victims

A call to protect truth as fiercely as we protect the vulnerable. There is...
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Tora Gidi Uzvitonge

It’s rather unfortunate that the only visual reference that most Africans have of their history mostly come from colonial documents, and old...

Ambuya Nehanda In All Her Glory

I want my art to explore the fantasy of what if we treated women the same way we treated men. Would ambuya...

Desires And Archetypes

The image of Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana is bitterly etched into the collective consciousness of Zimbabwe. It comes from a photograph that was...

Handikanganwe Mbuya Nehanda 

POVO Afrika · Pauline - Handikanganwe Mbuya Nehanda Just a girl in the world and you had to be...