Naomi Victoria Mangazi

Naomi Victoria Mangazi is a Zimbabwean-born, South Africa-based fiber artist, toryteller, and founder of The Forgotten Are Remembering—a healing art project that reclaims the lost stories of empire’s unacknowledged children.
Her work combines crochet, beads, thread, and sacred geometry to create symbolic textile artworks—stitched maps of identity, memory, and ancestral longing. Each piece is part protest, part prayer, woven from the silences of colonial erasure and diasporic disconnection.
A self-taught artist with roots in traditional African craft, Naomi weaves her own journey of identity—born during the Rhodesian transition—into every thread. Her work speaks especially to children of war, displacement, and unacknowledged lineage.
Through exhibitions, story cards, QR-linked digital archives, and spiritual reflection, Naomi turns crochet into cartography of the soul: art that maps not only where we come from, but who we were never allowed to become.
Her mission: to restore dignity, voice, and belonging to the Forgotten Children of Empire—one stitch at a time.