History with a Mission: Abraham Kawadza and Narratives of Agrarian Change in Zimbabwe

He was the first man who was clever enough to realize he could sell some green maize at the mine in Penhalonga... Even to build the good houses, you had to come and copy from Kawadza. To buy ploughshares, they had to come and copy from Kawadza. . . Even those who bought cars, they had to copy from Kawadza. . . Chief Gandanzara used to walk on foot whenever he wanted to meet anyone. But because of seeing Kawadza rid ing a horse, he himself decided to ride on a horse. . . We can say in Mani caland, or we can say in Zimbabwe, most of the good things were started with Kawadza.1