Brighton Sango was born in Guruve in northern Zimbabwe in 1958. He represented the direction of abstraction. In 1987, he was described by F. Mor in his book Shona Sculpture as follows: "Brighton Sango has gone his own way and is today the most interesting and promising of the new group." Sango's career as a sculptor began in Tengenenge. He only stayed for a few months before he withdrew from the influence of other sculptors. His work was initially heavily influenced by the "figurehead" of the community, Bernard Matamera. "After my experience in Tengenege, I felt that I had to change. My work was too much influenced by others. I now work with the idea that every day is new and that the work must reflect this." Without having had any artistic training, he decided to protect his work from outside influences and began to realize his very own ideas. Sango succeeded in presenting flat floor plans and changes of direction with an ease normally associated with contemporary steel sculpture. In a report on the exhibition Zimbabwe Stone Sculpture: The Second Generation, which took place in England in 1994, the art critic Lionel Philips highlighted Sango's work. "Sango, the only Zimbabwean whose work is mainly abstract, appears to be a follower of 1930s Cubism, but in reality he has had no exposure to Western art." Tragically, Brighton Sango took his own life in August 1995.