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3 unusual facts about Throne of Weapons


Throne of Weapons

The sculpture was created by a sculptor who was born Cristóvão Estavão Canhavato in Zavala in southern Mozambique.

The Associação Núcleo de Arte in Maputo has been an artists collective since the 1930s and despite the end of empire and a civil war it is still supporting artists as it did to Maputo painter Malangatana Ngwenya in the 1950s.

The artists collective was supported by Christian Aid and another Christian group led by Bishop Dinis Sengulane as part of an organisation called "Transformacao de Armas em Enxadas" or "Transforming Arms into Tools".



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