‘This excerpt is from Hayden Proud’s paper ‘Bridges to the Present: Zimbabwean Painting at the Crossroads’ which was first published in the exhibition catalogue for Five Bhobh: Painting at the End of an Era, held at Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) in Cape Town, South Africa, from 10 September 2018 – 31 March 2019.