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John Type was born in 1963 in Harare and began carving stone in the late 1980s, drawn to the medium through contact with the Shona sculptural community that had grown up around the National Gallery. H

Damian Manuhwa was born in 1972 in Harare, a generation removed from the Workshop School artists who founded the Shona sculptural movement. Coming of age in post-independence Zimbabwe, he encountered

The Makonde are an ethnic group indigenous to the Mueda Plateau of northern Mozambique and the Ruvuma region of southern Tanzania. Renowned across the world for their exceptional woodcarving tradition

The Shona are the largest indigenous group in Zimbabwe, comprising roughly 80 percent of the country's population and divided into five principal clans: the Karanga, Zezuru, Korekore, Manyika, and Nda