Traditional Process & Transformation

Since 2016, A Mozambican Social Enterprise called As Raizes has been working with the Mutamba community to preserve and revitalize the traditional pottery industry by introducing processes to improve the quality of the proucts, increase their value and by creating new market opportunities for them. In 2018, a local brand was created to commercialize refined pottery products made in Mutamba, aimed at new domestic and international markets. The brand does not compete with or replicate existing products, rather if refines and transforms products to create new opportunities. The name is Libumba - clay in Gitonga. A range of products has been developed which utilizes tradtiional forms and shapes, which are then glazed and fired in an electric kiln producing a beautiful transformed object suitable for food and other uses.