Zambia Belonging

18/06/2026

What is Tikwiza Theatre, who was behind it and when did it begin?

Throughout June, to remember and revive the rich work of Tikwiza Theatre, Zambia Belonging will be sharing digitised materials drawn from and inspired by the Tikwiza archive.

[Developed in collaboration with Georgia Nasseh, a researcher of Southern African theatre history, and Misha Maseka, a filmmaker and theatre practitioner.]

15/11/2025

We’re happy to continue our collaboration with Martinique-based (im) material space Nianiba with the Zambia Belonging collection. The second part of our project “The Memory of The Walls“ is a workshop exploring, dissecting and discussing family archives in the context of the home.

We welcome you to join us on Saturday 22nd of November 2025 at Everyday Lusaka Gallery for a Printmaking workshop – an encounter with words, block and ink facilitated by Maingaila Muvundika and Sana Ginwalla. The workshop intersects with Muvundika’s “Mwaiseni Mukwai” exhibition which explores the Zambian family album.

We are grateful for the collaboration with Studio225 who will be providing a mini-press and rollers for the event. Feel free to bring your favorite art materials to make your creative process completely yours!

RSVP at [email protected]

Graphic Designer: Philippine Talamona .talamon

FREE ENTRY

Saturday 22nd of November 2025

From 12:00 hrs. to 15:00 hrs.

Opening hours: Tues-Fri 9-17hrs
Sat 10-16hrs
Sunday, Monday & Public Holidays closed

📍 Everyday Lusaka Gallery, E. W Tarry Building, Shop #5 Kalundwe Road, off Cairo Road North End, between Jubilee Chemists and Master Glass

🚗 Free parking available. Turn on the alley before Master Glass and take the first green gate on the left to access the parking lot.

29/12/2024

Thankful to exhibit for the second time at the African Biennial of Photography under Special Projects at Blabla Bar!

and founder curated work from a collage workshop hosted with Cambridge Visual Cultures co-fellow Kerstin Hacker. We worked with a group of librarians, archivists and artists to reimagine and intervene in visual material from the Royal Commonwealth Society archive at the Cambridge University Library and the Zambia Belonging counter-archive.

Archival photographs by Alick Phiri is also exhibited for the first time. Alick is a photographer whom we have been working with since 2019. He was trained in the 1970s by Prabhubhai Vilas at Photo Art Studios, Lusaka till the late 1980’s. Alick later started his own studio called Kwacha Photo Studios in Kanyama, where he photographed residents outside their homes on the weekend. His work will be published by with support from in 2025!

Thank you immensely to and Sonia Keita for the platform. It is an honour to represent Zambia at one of the oldest and most important photographic biennale’s on the continent!

📸 Dasson Diarra and dear friends and

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About Blabla Bar:

A true institution in the Malian capital, BLABLA, opened in 1999, is an emblematic place for artistic events and meetings of African photography. More than just an exhibition space, it is a place of nightlife where works of art meet a diverse audience, international visitors and Bamako residents.
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Véritable institution dans la capitale malienne, le BLABLA, ouvert en 1999, est un lieu emblématique des événements artistiques et des rencontres de la photographie africaine. Plus qu’un simple espace d’exposition, il est un lieu de vie nocturne où les œuvres d’art rencontrent un public divers, visiteurs internationaux et bamakois.

Biennale Africaine de la photographie | African Biennial of Photography | 16.11.2024 - 16.01.2025

04/12/2024

Join Mushasho Phiri as he talks to Sana Ginwalla on Sibaka at 16hours this Thursday.

Sana is back this time we are talking about the Everyday Lusaka space. Curating artwork and archiving history through different artistic mediums.

Everyday Lusaka has held more than three exhibitions from it's opening this year and we get to discussing some of the processes that go into curating and exhibiting.

We touch on some of the conversations the art and history spring from and how they affect our "culture"

Join in on the conversation and tell us your thoughts on Zambian art and history

02/11/2024

02/11/2024

Join us for Lawrence Chikwa’s solo at the Everyday Lusaka Gallery next Saturday!

“As a conceptual artist, Lawrence Chikwa’s work carries profound depth and complexity, weaving a historical timeline through his commentary on Zambia’s colonial history and current societal conditions. He examines the consequences of history and the changing ways we perceive nature, doctrines, religion, and future perspectives within a contemporary capitalist framework.”

In this highly anticipated exhibition of new and past works, ‘Lost Garden & Eaten Apples’ “uses the image of a mythical garden to symbolise Africa as a once-lost paradise, specifically evoking the imagery of Zambia’s journey and the shifts between modernity and nature, traditional practices, and symbols of power.”

Text by Chibuye Changwe of
Curated by Sana Ginwalla

We look forward to seeing you next Saturday on the 9th of November! Location in our bio 📍

24/10/2024

Today, Zambia’s celebrates 60 years of being an independent nation. Over the last two years, we have had the chance to explore with how Zambia is remembered and archived in various collections at the University of Cambridge - from frail newspapers 🗞️ to poetic book titles 📚, we discovered pieces of Zambia between nooks and pages at the Centre for African Studies Library as well the Royal Commonwealth Society archive at the Cambridge University Library.

Honouring our past comes with the duty of acknowledging who writes, keeps and remembers it. As we reach our 6th year of conceptualising the counter-archive, Zambia Belonging will continue to centre what exists at the margins of our memory.

Extending the context of identity to its many intersections of belonging and history, the counter-archive persists to write a people-authored story. Through communal gathering of found photographs, Zambia Belonging arrives to tell untold stories of Zambia that survive behind images made of it.

Images taken during Kerstin Hacker and Sana Ginwalla’s Cambridge Visual Cultures co-fellowship at the University of Cambridge (2022-2023) as well as the Collections, Connections, Communities Grant (2024).

12/08/2024

What we got up to last month! 🎞️📚✂️🇬🇧🇿🇲

Exactly a month ago on the 12th of July, we wrapped up a super exciting project with the University of Cambridge!

As part of a project called Re-entangling the Visual Archive funded by the Collections-Connections-Communities Initiative, visual artists Edith Chiliboy and Maingaila Muvundika were invited by Dr. Kerstin Hacker and Sana Ginwalla (ZB founder) to explore Zambia’s history through colonial-era and post-independence archives held in the Cambridge University Libraries (CUL) and the Zambia Belonging collection.

A workshop for CUL staff was held to explore how we can approach challenging archival materials through critical and creative interventions. The project ended with a highly-visited pop-up exhibition at the Cambridge University Library that showcased artworks made by each participant – Dr. Kerstin Hacker, Sana Ginwalla, Edith Chiliboy and Maingaila Muvundika.

With support from the Cambridge School of Art at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), each artist used various creative methods to reinterpret items from the ZB and CUL collections such as books, periodicals, magazines, official publications, photographs, stamps and letters. With wonderful works on film and fabric to woodcut prints and digital collages, ZB continues to explore various methodologies of its function as a counter-archive.

We thank the entire CUL team that made this project happen: Amelie Roper, Jennifer Pagliuca, Eleanor Parmentor, Jenni Skinner, Sally Kent and the many helping hands that came together in those two short and eventful weeks. This was such a memorable experience, and we hope to be back!

Watch this space as we share more detailed updates from each artist 🔎

08/08/2024

https://youtu.be/s76fMwhRi-0?si=-G7X2QKcEYMj-A6n

Thank you so much DrAyan Ahmed for inviting Mr. William Miko and I to speak on your TV segment Tandala about my work with Everyday Lusaka.

This interview was filmed just a few months after the Everyday Lusaka Gallery was opened. I am incredibly grateful for the opportunity to have sat alongside some of the most supportive figures in my career, and for our work together to now become preserved through this conversation.

We spoke about how art entered our lives and how it can be of value in our communities. The full conversation can be watched via the link below!

Creative-Arts preserved and archived is important in maintaining African history, culture, and experiences. Dr. Ayan speaks with two creative-artists and ed...

10/03/2024

Thank you Nkwazi Magazine for this feature on the work we do, including archival footage from our collection (found at Fine Art Studios!)