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Tengenenge is a typical african village in the north of Zimbabwe, at the foot of the Great Dyke, a mountain range which stretches out to Zambia. The difference with other villages is the occupation of the inhabitants: they all make a living from sculpting!
The village is an open air gallery. More than 11.000 sculptures are exhibited, made by over 300 different sculptors each having their own style, performance and stand. About a hundred sculptor families live in Tengenenge. Some families consist of 3 generations of sculptors and they all try to make a living by selling their sculptures.

Besides the use of brown and black serpentine coming from the huge depot of the 'Great Dyke', some other hard stones like springstone and opal are used.

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The adventurous buyers of stone sculpture, who seek culture which is more than a plate of sadza with an African family, come to the Tengenenge Sculpture Community (Founder Director is mister Tom Blomberg, now 76 years old), 150 km from Harare on the road to Guruve.

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Artist at work. Zimbabwe" means "great stone house". It is fitting that stone sculpture is the art that most represents the people of Zimbabwe. It is also referred to as 'Shona Sculpture'. Today Zimbabwean sculptors rank among the best in the world. Matemera, Sango, Fata, Takawira ... are great artists. But a lot of imitations occur.

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