Art moderates Kanama�s ups and downs
Friday, January 16, 2015
Kanama's artwork
This passion was further fuelled when he passed art as a subject at secondary school. That gave him the energy to pursue art during his tertiary education. His further studies were on design, history of art and painting.
But the Zimbabwean artist is not only chasing a passion. Art has a deeper meaning to him.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...