Zimbabwe Hall of Fame

Guerrilla fighter at sixteen, cabinet minister at twenty-five, vice-president at forty-nine

Zimbabwe's first Black barrister, and ZANU's national chairman

Commander of ZANLA, dead weeks before independence

The African Union's ambassador to Washington, and its sharpest public voice on colonialism

Twice a PEN International award winner, writing in Shona and English

The House of Hunger, and the Guardian Fiction Prize

Novelist of the silences in Zimbabwe's history

Novelist and poet in both English and Shona

Wrote the first novel in Shona

The first woman shortlisted for the Booker with each of her first two novels

One of the founders of Zimbabwean stone sculpture

The most distinctive of Zimbabwe's stone sculptors

The Lion of Zimbabwe, and the inventor of chimurenga music

Simbaradzo, the best-selling album in Zimbabwean history

Chitekete, and the mastery of sungura

The father of dendera music

The mbira queen, who learned an instrument women were not permitted to play

Zimbabwe's best-selling gospel artist for two decades

Took up the mbira, which women were not supposed to play, and took it worldwide

The most prominent Ndebele musician Zimbabwe has produced

Okoye and Michonne — and the playwright behind Eclipsed

Publisher who kept an independent press alive under Mugabe

Broke Willowgate, and founded the paper that outsold the state's

The first Black woman to edit a mainstream Zimbabwean newspaper

Three major championships and world number one

Zimbabwe's first Black cricketer, and the black armband protest

Founded Econet after a five-year court fight with the state

Built Zimbabwe's largest security firm from a cottage at her house

Married at eleven, and went on to a doctorate and a foundation

His lab was the first in the world to identify the Omicron variant

The first Zimbabwean woman doctor

Founded ZAOGA under a gum tree, and grew it to three million members