The National Art Gallery of Zimbabwe has selected an art piece which looks at future generations done by the late Kingsley Sambo titled Ali and Mercy as part of commemorations to mark the World Day Against Child Labour.
BY NICOLA GIBSON
Every year on June 12, the world commemorates the World Day Against Child Labour.
Sambo was a painter and cartoonist who received his training in Bulawayo before joining Frank McEwens workshop school in 1957 until 1973.
A pioneer of easel painting in Zimbabwe, he also worked as a cartoonist for several African newspapers. Sambo’s works are in the collections of the National Art Gallery of Zimbabwe and museums of modern art in New York City.
The National Art Gallery of Zimbabwe said most of Sambo’s paintings are themed around the idea of children’s welfare.
“We chose Sambo’s art work because it was influenced by jazz and feeling. The warmth and the way the kids are dressed on Ali and Mercy’s painting depicts how happy children are when they experience parental love,” said National Art Gallery of Zimbabwe chief curator Raphael Chikukwa.
Sambo who was born in Rusape, died in 1977 at the age of 41.
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He attended Cyrene Mission school outside Bulawayo in the late 1950s where he received art training under Sam Songo before attending an art school in Malawi.
