Tendai Bengezhano
Tendai with her son Louis
Tendai was born near Mutare in 1968. She finished the equivalent of Grade 10, and then did a dressmaking course before getting married in 1990 and moving to Weya. She learned sadza painting at Weya and then took up appliqués from watching other artists. She has two children, a daughter born in 1990 and a son born in 1994. Her son has cerebral palsy. Tendai’s husband works in Harare, and the family lives in Kuwadzana, a township outside the city. Her favorite topics are about village life and her own family.
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