Crispen Chakanyuka

Crispen Chakanyuka (1943 - 2002) bụ onye Zimbabwe na-akpụ ihe.

A mụrụ ya na mpaghara Guruve, Chakanyuka gụsịrị akwụkwọ n'afọ 1960, wee gaa Nyanga ịchọ ọrụ.  N'ebe ahụ ka o zutere Joram Mariga, onye John Takawira kpọbatara ya.  Mariga kụziiri ya ịkpụ ihe, n'oge na-adịghị anya o zigara ya Frank McEwen na National Gallery of Zimbabwe.  McEwen wegara Chakanyuka na Nyarutsetso Art Centre, ebe ọ nọrọ afọ abụọ na-akpụ ma na-arụ ọrụ dị ka onye nkụzi.  Ozugbo e guzobere ya, ọ laghachiri Guruve ma mepee ụlọ ọrụ.

Na 1966 Tom Blomefield, onye nwe Ugbo Tengenenge na Guruve, gwara Chakanyuka ka ọ kụziere ya ịkpụ ihe.  Chakanyuka mere nke a, na-achọpụta ọtụtụ akụ nke serpentinite n'ugbo ahụ.  Ka United Nations malitere itinye ihe mgbochi na Rhodesia, ọrụ ugbo ụtaba malitere ịbụ ihe na-abaaghị uru, ya mere ndị ikom abụọ ahụ mere ka ugbo ahụ ghọọ Tengenenge Sculpture Community.  Chakanyuka nọrọ ọnwa ụfọdụ, na-akụziri ọtụtụ ndị na-eto eto na-akpụ ihe.

A manyere Chakanyuka ịhapụ ọrụ ya wee bụrụ onye na-ewu ụlọ mgbe agha nnwere onwe nke Zimbabwe malitere.  Ọ gara n'ihu n'usoro ọrụ a ruo ihe karịrị afọ iri abụọ tupu ọ laghachi na ihe ọkpụkpụ na 1994, mgbe ọ ghọrọ onye na-ese ihe na Chapungu Sculpture Park.  Kemgbe ahụ, ọ laghachiri na ikpu ihe ọkpụkpụ, ma gosipụta ya n'ọtụtụ ihe ngosi mba ụwa ma sonye na ọtụtụ ọmụmụ ihe n'afọ ndị na-adịbeghị anya.

Ọrụ Chakanyuka na-emetụta nka nke ndị Shona, a pụkwara ịhụ ihe atụ nke ihe ọkpụkpụ ya na Chapungu Sculpture Park.

 Njikọ mpụga 

 Biography na weebụsaịtị nke Artists for Orphans
 Biography na weebụsaịtị nke National Gallery of Zimbabwe [njikọ nwụrụ anwụ na-adịgide adịgide]