The ManicaPost
Post Reporter
THE Ndau communities, which are predominantly found in Chipinge and Chimanimani districts, have been challenged to effectively document their culture for posterity purposes.
Culture enthusiast and Ndau Festival of the Arts director, Mr Phillip Kusasa said recording and archiving their culture helps to prevent its erosion and eventual extinction.
This, he added, is important in serving as a reference point for history for future generations.
“Ndau culture and heritage is lagging behind in terms of documentation. We need to embark on a through exercise of recording and preserving it. To make the presentations powerful, it is essential to work on both audio and visual documentation.
“It is imperative for us to tap into the vast knowledge of the elderly people among us in order to capture and highlight our authentic norms, beliefs and values before they get wiped out into extinction. Documentation of the Ndau culture will then serve as a repository for future generations,” said Mr Kusasa.
Local culture has been subjugated to the hegemony of foreign ethos owing to the Western ways that continue to be assimilated some people.
