01/07/2026
Samson Kambalu, Amistad, 2014, United Kingdom.
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Samson Kambalu is a Malawi-born, Oxford-based artist, writer, ethnomusicologist, and professor, associated with anti-colonial, decolonial, and memory-focused work, including the Fourth Plinth commission Antelope in Trafalgar Square. In 2015 he curated a series called ‘Nyau Cinema’ consisting of 22 One Minutes using the rules of Nyau Cinema; a series of playful site-specific performances, ‘rants’, presented as film clip interventions. Nyau is a Chewa word for ‘excess’.