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Mzoxolo Vimba is a co-founder of BLK Thought Symposium, artist/organiser, sessional musician and cultural organiser. He works as the head of research and archives at keleketla.org: an NPO that initiates and provides platforms for collaborative, experimental, multi-media projects with local, national and international artists, cultural practitioners and activists. His work includes running Sunday-best studios which is an archive portal, co-producing and directing documentary films: “Ingoma yomzabalazo: song and resistance caucus”; “The (ban)ability of song” and “Discourses from the margins”. He has exhibited extensively across the African continent by means of photographs and installations: the most notable being, Joburg fringe in South Africa, Tumaini festival in Malawi, Mitambo international art festival in Zimbabwe and Chale wote street art festival in Ghana.

He had a residency at Africa Open Institute.  His commissioned work includes an arts community engagement programme by liberty life, A youth advocacy documentary called "what is our generational mission" by CIVICUS: World alliance for citizenship. His works are in private and public collections at wits university, the Art bank of South Africa, South African history online and Africa open institute.