The power of hands has left a marked imprint on me through the objects I saw in Zimbabwe, and the small collection of African objects that decorate my home remind me of something past, but part of my life. There are masks, finger-painted and carved in wood, carved African figurines, musical instruments. I see hands beating well-crafted drums, an important symbol in African culture of communication over wide distances. Dyed string covers wooden effigies and entwine bottles of different shapes in distinctly bright, raw African colours. Pipes from calabashes are decorated with clay and were smoked by both men and women. Fringes are looped and plaited from bark cloth to give a fuller textural dimension essentially African. They all have their own special significance in their creative power relating to a way of perceiving life and exploring and expressing within limits, basic human emotions of fears and faith, especially in the masks so meaningfully used on ceremonial occasions, full of ritual.