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The cultures within the space now known as Zimbabwe do not have writing systems that are formally recognized.

— Nontsikelelo Mutiti

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Writing and reading has always come with this colonial layer, even when we are reading local languages typeset using roman characters.

I look at them on a continuum of technologies.

I come into a space of teaching, I’m thinking about typography and letterform from that position.

In my practice, I try not to look at African material culture as something that is antiquated.

I was not taught about any of these ways of articulating myself.

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