Description

This piece captures Africa as the radiant heart of a wider universe. The crocheted continent, wrapped in layers of color, speaks of cultures woven together through time. The surrounding circular forms represent orbits —echoes of diasporas, journeys, and ancestral connections that continue to circle back home. Brushstrokes of vivid color flow across the canvas like energy lines, symbolizing movement, migration, and the unbreakable threads that tie us to place and memory.

Dimension 100x30cm

Part of the Threaded Roots Series

Threaded Roots is a handcrafted map art series telling stories that history forgot. Each piece is crocheted by Naomi Victoria Mangazi as an act of remembrance, healing, and faith.
Through yarn and map, she honours The Forgotten Children of Empire — those born into exile, silence, and unacknowledged lineage.
FAITH & PURPOSE – “A Stitch of Grace”
I create each piece prayerfully. Some are born from grief, some from hope, all from God’s mercy.
Threaded Roots is not just art — it’s ministry. For the forgotten. For the displaced. For those seeking their name.
OUR STORY – “The Forgotten Children
of Empire”
This project honours the lives of children born during colonial rule, conflict, and exile — especially between 1975 and 1982 in Zimbabwe and beyond.
Many were born to British soldiers, Rhodesian officers, or displaced mothers. Their stories were hidden by shame, silence, and state.
Today, we stitch them back into history — not through anger, but through remembrance and art.
“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.” — Jeremiah 1:5
When bloodlines vanish, thread remembers.