Description
This piece traces the broken geography of belonging. A hand-stitched Africa spirals from a red-centered core, echoing ancestral memory, displacement, and identity. Each row is a testimony to those born of empire— unclaimed yet unforgotten. The borders are framed in colors of memory: earth, ash, and fire.
Dimension 50×50
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.
