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Walela Nehanda is a Black non-binary writer, cultural worker, cancer & stem cell transplant survivor, and mental health advocate from Los Angeles, California. [ 1 ] In 2020, Nehanda was featured on the 26th Annual Out100 list. [ 2 ]
Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana also known as Mbuya Nehanda (c. 1840–1898) was a svikiro, or spirit medium of the Zezuru Shona people. She was a medium of Nehanda, a female Shona mhondoro (a powerful and respected ancestral spirit). [ 1 ]
Nehanda Isoke Abiodun (born Cheri Laverne Dalton; 29 June 1950 – 30 January 2019) was an African American hip hop activist, black revolutionary, and fugitive who was living in Cuba. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Abiodun was wanted by the FBI in connection of the 1981 robbery of a Brink's truck that resulted in the killing of a Brink's guard and two New York ...
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Hwata Chiripanyanga and Nehanda Nyakasikana Ambuya Nehanda also referred to as the witch Nyanda in British records of that period, heard this news and organised uprising against the British settlers from their lands at Mazoe. (A film in which Stella Chiweshe played the role of Ambuya Nehanda, died 1896, has been made.)
In "The Picture of Nahanda and Kagubi", Mutswairo laments the fate of Nehanda Nyakasikana, a woman who was executed after inspiring a fight for independence in the 19th century: Why, now, Nehanda Nyakasikana, Do you close your eyes, Mufakose, With your face gently lowered And your eyes staring long And looking down—heavy with tears… [5]
Nehanda Nyakasikana (left) and Sekuru Kaguvi (right), after their 1897 capture. Sekuru Kaguvi [1] (Kagubi, [2] Kakubi), was a svikiro (), a traditionalist leader in pre-colonial Zimbabwe, and a leader in the Shona rebellion of 1896-1897 against European rule, known as the First Chimurenga.
The Statue of Mbuya Nehanda is a bronze monument of a Zimbabwean Shona spirit medium and heroine of the 1896-1897 First Chimurenga war against British colonists. The monument is erected at the intersection of Samora Machel Avenue and Julias Nyerere Way in Harare's central business district.