This image of the fish eagle, or hungwe, was painted on the walls of the family’s rural home by Sekuru Chigamba’s son Mataure, in the early 1990s. As Sekuru Chigamba explains in his story of Masvingo’s rise and fall, the fish eagle has long been held sacred, and closely associated with the Great Zimbabwe empire. More recently, it has been adopted as a national symbol of Zimbabwe.
Photo courtesy Erica Azim