Freedom sengwayo biography

____________ The Sengwayos: The long dresses, the music, and the pain _________

Growing up, I was always fascinated by a local church they only called “chechi yemadhirezi marefu”.

The church of the long dresses!

I’d see them on their way to church, the women, in their ankle-length dresses and velvet berets. Always a quiet dignity about them.

But the one thing that I loved about this lot was their singing; thank heavens for Freedom Sengwayo for taking it out of their closed churches to the public.

Freedom sengwayo biography

The church was the Apostolic Faith Church in Southern Africa. It had been founded by Morgan Sengwayo back in 1955, Bulawayo. Its first church still stands today at Pelandaba.

I have read that when Sengwayo was a teen, his father took him to a white policeman he knew in Gweru, hoping to get him a job in the force.

“The European officer, looking at Morgan, did not perceive the right kind of character in this gentle young man. ‘I am afraid old man,’