Benhura’s journey to stardom

By Thomas Chidamba
RENOWNED sculptor Dominic Benhura shrugged off the melancholy of losing a father before he was born to become one of the country’s best artists. He has been in the game for almost four decades now and has seen it all, producing scintillating sculptures and touring the world with his works.

Benhura says his life was not that rosy growing up, but he soldiered on and grasped the rudiment of sculpting from his relations to become a master of stone art.

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