It was Bishop Dinis Sengulane's idea which led to the creation of an organisation called "Transformacao de Armas em Enxadas" or "Transforming Arms into Tools".

[5] The "Transforming Arms into Tools" organisation supplied the decommissioned weapons to the artists and his group for this and many other related pieces of sculpture.

[6] Around the bottom of the main trunk, which weighs half a ton (c. 500 kg), there are some complementary sculptures of animals.

[8] The millions of weapons in Mozambique were the remains of the civil war that was funded by South Africa and Rhodesia and involved emigrants from both of their regimes.

[1] The sculpture had been brought to England by Christian Aid's Julia Fairrie as part of an exhibition called Swords into Ploughshares.

[9] It played a leading part in the "Africa 2005 Season" which took place in Britain and involved the Arts Council, the British Museum, Christian Aid and a number of London galleries.