{"id":3419,"date":"2022-06-15T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/povo.africa\/journal\/?p=3419"},"modified":"2022-06-30T16:30:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T16:30:11","slug":"the-heroine-footprints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/povo.africa\/journal\/the-heroine-footprints\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heroine Footprints"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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\u2019t choose to live for herself but for the nation to have freedom. She is dead but her spirit lives on, her memories in our minds and we are walking upon her footprints fulfilling her wishes of being independent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"973\" src=\"http:\/\/povo.africa\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/nehandaBrown.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3421\" srcset=\"http:\/\/povo.africa\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/nehandaBrown.jpg 650w, http:\/\/povo.africa\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/nehandaBrown-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/povo.africa\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/nehandaBrown-281x420.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption>The Heroine Footprints by <strong>Keith Zenda&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>80cm x 120cm, Acrylic on canvas<\/em>, <em>2021<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The New And Old Footprints<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We are walking upon the forefather\u2019s footprints and as the new generation, we forgetting our history and not following our culture and traditions. We are now living a new modern life. We are experiencing the brighter side of life represented by the colourful footprints on the painting. Our ancestor&#8217;s footprints are represented by the brown dark footprints in the painting. We are now living in different times and are influenced by technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"940\" src=\"https:\/\/povo.africa\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/foots-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3497\" srcset=\"http:\/\/povo.africa\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/foots-1.jpg 650w, http:\/\/povo.africa\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/foots-1-207x300.jpg 207w, http:\/\/povo.africa\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/foots-1-290x420.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption>The New And Old Footprints by<strong> Keith Zenda<\/strong> (<em>80cm x 120cm Acrylic on canvas<\/em>, <em>2021)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019t choose to live for herself but for the nation to have freedom. She is dead but her spirit lives on, her memories in our minds and we are walking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":3577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,123],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fine-art","8":"category-nehanda-re-imagined"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Heroine Footprints - The POVO Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Heroine Footprints is an artwork by Keith Zenda . 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