Abstract
ABSTRACT On Africa Day in 2021, Zimbabwe’s president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, unveiled the Mbuya Nehanda statue in Harare Central Business District. In his unveiling speech, Mnangagwa referred to Mbuya Nehanda as a reflection and embodiment of the heroic people of Zimbabwe. Predicated upon the Nehanda figure and Mnangagwa’s ideology, this study investigates civil religion in the second republic of Zimbabwe. In considering the homogenizing and unifying identity derived from cultural symbols, the study further examines the complexities associated with such a task in Zimbabwe as a multireligious, multiethnic, and multidimensionally crisis ridden context.
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