Education
2015-2018 BSc (HONS) International Relations and Politics, University of Manchester. Manchester, UK
2020-2021 MA Arts and Culture Management, Rome Business School. Rome, Italy
Exhibitions
2021 Group: Lead From The Land, Decolonising The Archive, Digital
2021 Solo: Ngoma Zya Budima, The Recovery Plan, Florence Italy
2022 Solo: Ngoma Zya Budima, Soho House, Rome Italy
2023 Group: Prospice Kwacha, Lusaka Contemporary, Lusaka Zambia
2023 Solo: Musyokwe / Ancestral Altar, FNB Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa
2023 Group: A Sacred Story at the Tree of Life, IFA, Berlin, Germany
2024 Group: Memories of An Unbridled River, Lofoten International Art Festival, Svolvær, Norway
UPCOMING
2024 Group: Haptic Library, Dak’art, Dakar, Senegal
as Curator
2022 Fabricated Stories Exhibition, Women’s History Museum, Lusaka, Zambia
2023 Fractures, Women’s History Museum, Lusaka Zambia
2023 Fractures: Trajectories, Women’s History Museum, Lusaka Zambia
2024 Fractures: The Critical Language of Intervention, Women’s History Museum, Open Window University, Lusaka, Zambia
as Assistant Curator
2019 YoMe Exhibition by Hojin: A Pop of Street Culture, Modzi Arts and Hojin Im, Lusaka, Zambia
2019 Ni Mzilo: It is Taboo Exhibition and Book Launch by Agness Buya Yombwe & Curated by Julia Taonga Kaseka, Livingstone, Zambia
Residencies
2020-2021 Writer-in-Residence, The Lungs Project, Digital
2021 Artist in Residence, Decolonising The Archive: Lead From The Land, Digital
2021 Artist in Residence, MQBMQB, Villa Lena, Bulgari, Palaia, Italy
2023 Curator in Residence, Modzi Arts: Zamrock Museum, Lusaka, Zambia
2024 Curator-in-Residence, Livingstone Office for Contemporary Art, Livingstone, Zambia
2024 Historian in Residence, African Digital Heritage, Nairobi, Kenya
2024 Publishing Practices, Archive, Dakar, Senegal
Awards
2024 Prince Claus Seed Award, Prince Claus Fund
2024 Youth4Climate, UNDP, Rome, Italy
Symposiums, Workshops and Talks
Symposiums
2019 International Culture Colloquium 2019: “Creativity, Innovation and Dialogue for Inclusive Development” European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
2021 Overworked Subjectivities, Risk and Recovery, Black Archive Alliance, Florence, Italy
2023 Thinking from a Perennial Corridor, Livingstone Office for Contemporary Art, Livingstone, Zambia
2024 Unveiling Decolonization: Climate Change, Food and Indigenous Knowledge, The New Global Order, Online
2024 One Planet Network Forum, For a Sustainale Planet and a Just World, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Workshops
2024 Critical Art Writing Workshop with Ticha Muvhuti, ARAK Collection, The Project Room Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia
Talks
2021 Lead from the Land with Beulah Ezeugo and Yadichinma Ukoha-Kalu, produced by Decolonising The Archive, Digital
2021 Celestial Bodies with Dr. Paul B Preciado and Jordan Anderson, produced by MQBMBQ, Gucci Equilibrium, L’eredità delle Donne, Florence, Italy
2024 Malende: An Aural Projection of baTonga Ecological Ritual with Dr Memory Biwa, produced by Cashmere Radio for IFA Gallery, Digital
Publications
2017 On Falling In Love With My Crown, Issue 1: Women and Hair, FEMZINE, London, UK
2018 Too African for Europe, Too European for Africa: The Complex Dilemma of The Child of Africa and The Diaspora, Issue 01: Spaces Raw Forms, Manchester, UK
2018 The Utterance of My Name, 07: The Other Issue Cluny MCR, Manchester, UK
2018 Motions in Bloom, Resilient Zine/EP, Dope Saint Jude, Digital
2020 Euphemising Masturbation, Volume 1, Was It Good For You, Berlin, Germany
2020 Mwana‘angu, Dear Noah (A Time Capsule), Digital
2021 Ngoma Zya Budima, Arlo’s Art Therapy Journal, Arlo Parks x DAZED x Converse, Digital
2023 The Women’s History Museum of Zambia in cyberspace, Europeana PRO, Digital
2023 A Space in Between #4, Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland
2024 Seeds of Resistance, Nkwazi Magazine, Lusaka, Zambia
2024 Silent Syntax, Waithood Magazine, Maputo, Mozambique
2024 Roadmapping History: Chachacha Road and the Mpapa Gallery, GIDA Journal Vol III. Lagos, Nigeria
Feature Articles, Interviews and Reviews
2019 The Zambian bloggers capturing the country’s blossoming fashion scene, Miselo Matipa, Dazed
2019 Local Crafts with Banji Chona of Inkaya (FKA Nkanda), Jameson Zambia Radio Show
2021 On The Importance Of Social Revolutions: How Three Black Creatives Are Straddling Culture And Craft, Chidozie Obasi, Vogue Italia
2022 Di Palo in Frasca: una piattaforma di ricerca di The Recovery Plan a Firenze, Serena Calaresu for Senza Cornice
2022 MQBMBQ x Villa Lena Residency Partnerships, Annalisa Ferrante for Villa Lena Foundation
2022 Ngoma Zya Budima: Radical Archiving, Dr. Vera-Simone Schultz for Planetary Patchwork: A perpetual seminar on artistic practices, heritage and epistemologies
2022 Black Queer Sexuality and Social Justice with Banji Chona, Erika Hart and SA Smythe, Jordan Anderson (MQBMBQ) for Gucci Podcasts
2023 Echoes of Resilience: Africa Artists and Ecological Consciousness, Khumo Sebambo for Pavillion 54
2023 Lusaka Contemporary Art Center Opens as Zambia’s First Contemporary Art Hub, Iyanuoluwa Adendle for Art News Africa
2023 All Aboard the LUCAC Express, Chaze Matakala for Latitudes Online
2023 A Space for Dialogue Across Continents, Marianne Enge for Kunskritikk: Nordic Art Review
2023 Banji Chona Calls on Ancestral Knowledge, Ethel-Ruth Tawe for Contemporary And
2024 Romancing the Ndombondo, Mukandi Siame for Nkwazi Magazine