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\u2014 unclaimed yet unforgotten. The borders are framed in colors of memory: earth, ash, and fire.<\/p>\n
Dimension 50×50<\/p>\n
Part of the\u00a0Threaded Roots Series<\/strong><\/p>\n 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. 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\u2014 unclaimed yet unforgotten. The borders are framed in colors of memory: earth, ash, and fire. Dimension 50×50 Part of the\u00a0Threaded Roots Series Threaded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[70,43,46,30,47,31,105,695,42],"product_tag":[208,58,126],"class_list":{"0":"post-14157","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-african","7":"product_cat-artists","8":"product_cat-contemporary","9":"product_cat-fine-art","10":"product_cat-gallery","11":"product_cat-mediums","12":"product_cat-mixed-media","13":"product_cat-naomi-victoria-mangazi","14":"product_cat-styles","15":"product_tag-african","16":"product_tag-contemporary","17":"product_tag-mixed-media","19":"first","20":"instock","21":"taxable","22":"shipping-taxable","23":"purchasable","24":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunyeartfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/14157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunyeartfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunyeartfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunyeartfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunyeartfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kunyeartfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunyeartfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_brand&post=14157"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunyeartfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=14157"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kunyeartfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=14157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThrough yarn and map, she honours The Forgotten Children of Empire \u2014 those born into exile, silence, and unacknowledged lineage.
\nFAITH & PURPOSE \u2013 \u201cA Stitch of Grace\u201d
\nI create each piece prayerfully. Some are born from grief, some from hope, all from God\u2019s mercy.
\nThreaded Roots is not just art \u2014 it\u2019s ministry. For the forgotten. For the displaced. For those seeking their name.
\nOUR STORY \u2013 \u201cThe Forgotten Children
\nof Empire\u201d
\nThis project honours the lives of children born during colonial rule, conflict, and exile \u2014 especially between 1975 and 1982 in Zimbabwe and beyond.
\nMany were born to British soldiers, Rhodesian officers, or displaced mothers. Their stories were hidden by shame, silence, and state.
\nToday, we stitch them back into history \u2014 not through anger, but through remembrance and art.
\n\u201cBefore I formed you in the womb, I knew you.\u201d \u2014 Jeremiah 1:5
\nWhen bloodlines vanish, thread remembers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"