Sydney Manjengwa was born in 1972 in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. He started making art with the late Biggie Kapeta and realized that his social role was to reincarnate in his work the Shona values which have been eroded through modernisation and globalization.
In the early 1990s he worked at a stone mine where he got connected to Chapungu Sculpture Park in Zimbabwe where he realized the possibilities he might have in sculpture. He then joined the Tengenenge Sculpture Community in Guruve Zimbabwe where he worked alongside the late Matemera Bernard who told him, “Sculpture what you feel you should in a way that is completely yours.”
Sydney Manjengwa aspires to work on harder stones and experiment with other media in sculpture in order to express sentiments coming directly from urban and rural societies in Africa. His work is represented in many countries including Australia, Netherlands, Germany, UK, America, South Africa and Switzerland.