Andrew Mulenga's Hole In The Wall

Andrew Mulenga's Hole In The Wall

Monday, 29 September 2014

Why has it taken 50 years?

By Andrew Mulenga The local arts fraternity is still savouring the occasion of Friday the 5 th of September 2014, when for the very f...

Monday, 22 September 2014

By chisel and mallet, theirs is a brotherhood cast in stone

By Andrew Mulenga By chisel and mallet, file and grinder, theirs is a brotherhood cast in stone, literally. Roots of Xpression , a...

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About Me

Andrew Mulenga: Andrew Mulenga is a self-taught, freelance arts journalist whose main focus is documenting the contemporary art scene of his home country Zambia. He studied Art & Design at the Africa Literature Centre, Kitwe and began his career as a graphic designer and illustrator at Mission Press in Ndola. He later joined The Post Newspapers Ltd. in the same capacity working his way to an appointment as Deputy Editor of the Education Post while establishing himself as the publications resident art critic. He is the 2012 CNN Multi-choice African Journalist of the year for Art & Culture. In 2014 he received a Media Institute of Southern Africa award for arts journalism. He completed an MA Art History at Rhodes University on an Andrew Mellon scholarship in 2014. He is currently on an Art History and Visual Culture Scholarship for a PhD at the same university. Since 2012 his articles have been regularly adapted in the modules of the Zambian Open University’s art curriculum. Through his writing as an emerging art historian his current ambition is to encourage Zambian artists to question the sociopolitical, cultural, historical, moral and aesthetic implications of the work they produce.

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