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Ndau Festival of the Arts
art, and presentations. Presentations are often given by elders, who are invited to share their perception of the world based on their culture’s traditional values. Over the years the festival has gained the attention of local researchers and scholars who aim to understand the culture’s fuse of environmental management to social life. Researchers hope to develop environmental practices for modern communities by borrowing from the rich past of the Ndau people.
Who are the Ndau people?
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The Ndau are a sub ethnic group of Shona, a group of similar Bantu speaking people, that reside in areas of eastern and south-eastern Zimbabwe. Ndau culture has strong spiritual beliefs centered around natural resources and wildlife. In traditional belief, nature and the spirit world are ultimately correlated resulting in a symbiotic relationship between themselves and the physical environment.
