Set in stone: Zimbabwean sculptor hammering home Covid-19 me

Set in stone: Zimbabwean sculptor hammering home Covid-19 messages
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David Ngwerume's sculpture 'Arms' encourages vaccination against Covid-19. © RFI
5 min
Zimbabwean sculptor David Ngwerume will tell you that his country has beautiful stones. “I’m taking advantage of that beauty to capture the world’s attention,” the 40-year-old says.
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David Ngwerume gestures to his garden, in a leafy Harare suburb, where his latest creations stand beneath the boughs of shady trees.
“Most of these stones that you see as sculptures are found along mineral belts and some of them are mineral ores,” he says.
Take black springstone, a hard serpentine rock that is rich in iron. It polishes to a beautiful black and is the stone from which he created “Arms”, one of a series of Covid-19 themed sculptures that has taken Zimbabwean social media by storm.

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