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Luyando Muleya (b. Lusaka, based in Livingstone) is a curator and researcher. Using peer education models, Luyando is currently curating Sikatongo’s Garden, a mobile, interactive platform operating at the intersection of ecology and technology. Sikatongo’s Garden takes the form of a mobile museum, it plants living parallel gathering spaces in site-specific heritage sites across Zambia. IG

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Naoko Mabon (b. Fukuoka, based in Oban, Scotland) is a curator. Driven by her own lived experience as an ethnic minority in the UK and the sense of urgency/responsibility towards planetary issues, Naoko uses arts as effective tools to generate relationships and changes for present and upcoming generations. She was an artist-in-resident of Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre (LuCAC) in 2025. IG

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Chibuye Changwe (b. Lusaka, based in Brussels, Belgium) is a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute in Brussels. Chibuye runs ARt Gallivant, an archive of critical art writing and discourses. She collaborated as a writer with Everyday Lusaka Gallery for Cecelia Miller’s show curated by Sana Ginwalla in 2025. IG

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Kabila Stéphane (b. DR Congo, based in Berlin, Germany) is a curator, researcher, philosopher and member of the working group of Another Roadmap of Art Education, of African Cluster at the Waza Art Center in Lubumbashi. Kabila is a collaborator of the Livingstone Office for Contemporary Arts. IG

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Lifang Zhang (b. Zhouning, based in Beijing) is a curator and researcher with a MA and PhD in Art History from Rhodes University in South Africa. She curated Martin Abasi Phiri (MAP) Retrospective exhibition at LuCAC and Zambia National Visual Arts Council in 2024/5. Currently a research fellow at Tsinghua University. IG

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Samba Yonga (b. Lusaka, based in Lusaka) is a media and communications expert who curates. Samba is a co-founder of The Women's History Museum of Zambia with the mandate to research, restore and restitute African indigenous narratives, artefacts, knowledge and “living histories” focused on women. IG

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Sana Ginwalla (b. Lusaka, based in Lusaka) is an Indian-Zambian artist and curator. Sana is the Founder and Creative Director of Everyday Lusaka Gallery and Zambia Belonging counter-archive. She also teaches Creativity Thinking, Design Studies and Culture, Myth & Symbolism at the Open Window University. IG

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Max Diallo Jakobsen (born in Sweden and of Guinean descent) is a writer, historian, and researcher whose work explores the intersections of materiality and cultural history. He was the first awardee of the Southnord Residency Programme in partnership with Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre (LuCAC) in 2025. IG