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Pioneering art collection returns to Zimbabwe after 70 years

An elderly man walks past photographs of young Black students at Cyrene Mission School at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Tuesday July 26, 2022. The Black students portraits are part of a historic exhibit, "The Stars are Bright," now showing in Zimbabwe for the first time since the collection left the country more than 70 years ago. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Schoolchildren join a queue to see paintings done in the 1940s and 1950s by young Black students at Cyrene Mission School at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Wednesday Aug. 3, 2022. The paintings are part of a historic exhibit, "The Stars are Bright," now showing in Zimbabwe for the first time since the collection left the country more than 70 years ago. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

A couple takes a look at paintings done in the 1940s and 1950s by young Black students at Cyrene Mission School at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Friday July 22, 2022. The paintings are part of a historic exhibit, "The Stars are Bright," now showing in Zimbabwe for the first time since the collection left the country more than 70 years ago.(AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Schoolchildren look at paintings done in the 1940s and 1950s by young Black students at Cyrene Mission School at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Wednesday July 27, 2022. The paintings are part of a historic exhibit, "The Stars are Bright," now showing in Zimbabwe for the first time since the collection left the country more than 70 years ago. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Schoolchildren look at paintings done in the 1940s and 1950s by young Black students at Cyrene Mission School at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Wednesday July 27, 2022. The paintings are part of a historic exhibit, "The Stars are Bright," now showing in Zimbabwe for the first time since the collection left the country more than 70 years ago. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Schoolchildren look at paintings done in the 1940s and 1950s by young Black students at Cyrene Mission School at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Wednesday Aug. 3, 2022. The paintings are part of a historic exhibit, "The Stars are Bright," now showing in Zimbabwe for the first time since the collection left the country more than 70 years ago. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Schoolchildren look at paintings done in the 1940s and 1950s by young Black students at Cyrene Mission School at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Wednesday Aug. 3, 2022. The paintings are part of a historic exhibit, "The Stars are Bright," now showing in Zimbabwe for the first time since the collection left the country more than 70 years ago. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Schoolchildren look at paintings done in the 1940s and 1950s by young Black students at Cyrene Mission School at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Wednesday Aug. 3, 2022. The paintings are part of a historic exhibit, "The Stars are Bright," now showing in Zimbabwe for the first time since the collection left the country more than 70 years ago. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Schoolchildren look at paintings done in the 1940s and 1950s by young Black students at Cyrene Mission School at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Wednesday Aug. 3, 2022. The paintings are part of a historic exhibit, "The Stars are Bright," now showing in Zimbabwe for the first time since the collection left the country more than 70 years ago. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Schoolchildren look at photographs of young Black students at Cyrene Mission School at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Tuesday July 26, 2022. The Black students portraits are part of a historic exhibit, "The Stars are Bright," now showing in Zimbabwe for the first time since the collection left the country more than 70 years ago. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

A woman looks at a painting by Livingstone Sango depicting Jesus as a Black man at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Thursday July 14, 2022. The painting is part of a historic exhibit, "The Stars are Bright," now showing in Zimbabwe for the first time since the collection left the country more than 70 years ago. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Gift Livingtsone Sango, 65, stands next to a painting by his father depicting Jesus as a Black man at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Thursday, July 14, 2022. The painting done by his late father in the 1940s is part of a historic exhibit, "The Stars are Bright," now showing in Zimbabwe for the first time since the collection left the country more than 70 years ago. A photograph of Sango's father, Livingstone, as a young boy hangs next to the painting. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Pioneering art collection returns to Zimbabwe after 70 years