BY DR TONY M. MONDA Apart from being a sculptor, Henry Munyaradzi was also an indigenous farmer. In 1984 Munyaradzi hosted a successful solo exhibition in London; this enabled him…
BY DR TONY M. MONDA Much of Zimbabwean indigenous culture reveals insights to human and ecological nature. Most of the ‘First Generation’ of Zimbabwean stone sculptors worked intuitively within the…
BY DR. TONY M. MONDA The late Afro-jazz musician, Manu Dibango described Munyaradzi “. . . as the Miles Davis of Shona sculpture; simple, yet sophisticated, the epitome of cool…
Not unlike the early promoters of Zimbabwean Shona Art, Frank McEwen, Pat Pearce, Roland Penrose and Father Groeber who collected, promoted, endorsed and wrote about Shona art in its nascent…