The dancers allegedly dragged the complainant to a cemetery and forced him to sleep on top of a grave before ordering him to eat soil from the grave side. Zimbabwe: Nyau Dancers Taken to Court for ...

Soon all are joined in a singing, percussive, dust-shrouded, cathartic community ritual of song, dance and theatrical mimicry that relate age-old stories of wisdom, myth and morality. Nyau ...

Harare — TWO Nyau dancers suspected of having severely assaulted a man from Chief Zimbiru village in Chinhamhora last month, have been arrested. The two, Simbarashe Dzuwa (19) and Philemon ...

Using a medium-format camera and often setting up his shots in the sacred groves in which masks are made and initiates are trained, Curran has produced a series of portraits of Nyau dancers who ...

The tribe is mainly known for Gule wankulu, or Nyau -- literally its “big dance,” performed by masked men called spirits. It’s restricted to the men of the Chewa ethnic group. Dyson Gonthi ...

Police in a statement on Wednesday said the girl died after falling to the ground while running away from the Nyau dancers at a school in Mabvuku on Monday. • Investigations are in progress ...

The dancers - initiated Nyau men - wear masks and costumes made of banana leaves. The attire is meant to represent all aspects of humanity, but at the same time hide the dancer's identity.