Three photographs. The 19th-century spirit medium Mbuya Nehanda as she stands defiantly before the gallows; former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe in his stately prime; Lilian Chigumadzi, the ...

A Zimbabwean delegation dispatched to the United Kingdom to repatriate the heads of Mbuya Nehanda, Sekuru Kaguvi and others has located 13 heads among them, those of the two most prominent First ...

“The Story of Nehanda” is a new locally produced movie on the cards that tells the trial and execution of Mbuya Nehanda. The film chronicles the events of the first Chimurenga/Umvuleka and stars ...

Perhaps not far from where Mbuya Nehanda’s statue looks out across downtown Harare, lies the answer to the 123-year mystery that surrounds her death. There is the possibility that somewhere within the ...

Mbuya Nehanda is a name that almost every Zimbabwean knows. A legendary woman who led resistance to British colonial rule in the First Chimurenga, Mbuya Nehanda was a spiritual leader who was executed ...

ZANU PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa yesterday took praise-singing to a new level, describing President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the country’s own Mbuya Nehanda, an ancient ancestral spirit from ...

0900: The statue of Mbuya Nehanda that President Mnangagwa will soon be unveiled at the intersection of Samora Machel Avenue and Julius Nyerere Way in Harare will be a monument that reminds us of how ...

It was meant to unite a nation, but instead it is dividing it yet deeper along political and religious lines. A bronze 3.5 metre-high statue of Mbuya Nehanda, who played a key role in Zimbabwe’s fight ...

THE Zimbabwean government unveiled a statue of the liberation heroine and anti-colonialism figurehead Mbuya Nehanda in the capital, Harare, last Tuesday amid controversy about its priorities while the ...

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa marked Africa Day by unveiling the statue of a 19th century anti-colonialist who became a national heroine. Mnangagwa vowed to press Britain to return the skull ...