A source on the Shona Rising of 1896 to 1897 records that the threat of famine caused by locusts led Central Shona leaders to contact a religious leader in search of locust medicine. Name that religious leader.

Mkwati worked from the Matopos as a Mwari cult figure and his messengers moved into central Mashonaland during the locust and rinderpest years. Approaching him for medicine put a religious authority in touch with chiefs already angry about tax and forced labour, which is how a request about locusts fed into a rising.