Waza, which means “imagine” in Swahili, is an art center in Lubumbashi that develops exhibitions, publications, and other cultural productions for the emergence of grassroots experimental artistic practices and the promotion of alternative ways of knowledge sharing and consciousness raising.
Centre d’art Waza, poetry performance session at the Centre d’art Waza courtyard during the opening of its art education program Kazi 2.0, Lubumbashi, 2018, photo: Berry Numbi, courtesy Centre d’art Waza
Its recent projects explore various themes such as the restitution of African cultural heritage, the commons, art education, and emancipation from paternalistic organization of labor.
