2024 Adjudicators
Aisha Aliyu-Bima | Nigeria
Biography
Aisha Aliyu-Bima is an art curator, writer and photographer. She is the director of arts at the African School of Economics in Abuja, Nigeria. Aisha’s work focuses mainly on Africa’s contemporary art through the lens of language, conflict, material and reparations. Her research subjects include the Hausa language and its influence and counter-influence across the […]
Alexia Walker| South Africa
Biography
Alexia Walker is an independent art advisor based in Johannesburg, with modern and contemporary art expertise with a special focus on Africa. She established the art advisory Walker Art to help private and corporate collectors build collections and better understand and manage the value of their art. Prior to this, she co-founded the art advisory […]
Kefiloe Siwisa| South Africa
Biography
Kefiloe Siwisa is a cultural artist based in Johannesburg. Her practice is grounded in “curatorial consciousness”, an approach that prioritises empathy, collective presencing and (rest)oration. Most recently, Kefiloe was the project coordinator and curatorial assistant for Reimagining Heritage, Archives and Museums: Today/Tomorrow at the Institut Français d’Afrique du Sud. She is currently part of the […]
Sophie Boule| South Africa
Biography
Sophie Boule joined the cultural diplomatic network in 2021 as a cultural attaché and deputy director of the French Institute of South Africa, after spending two years as deputy general delegate of international relations for Paris. Her involvement in the city started in 1995 and she headed up Carnavalet Museum’s Communication Department from 1999 to […]
Sally Polley| Ghana
Biography
Sally Polley is head of the Curatorial Department at Noldor Artist Residency in Accra, Ghana. She holds a law degree and has a fascination for the arts, anthropology and literature. With a background in fashion marketing and brand strategy analysis, Sally’s philosophy on exhibitions is rooted in a desire to explore the parallel realities in […]
Lawrence Lemaoana| South Africa
Biography
Lawrence Lemaoana lived in Welkom before relocating to Johannesburg where he received his B-Tech Degree majoring in Fine Arts at the University of Johannesburg. He is currently completing his Master’s Degree at the University of South Africa’s (UNISA’s) Art and Music Department, where he is also a junior visual arts lecturer. His body of work […]
Dr Lilian Mary Nabulime| Uganda
Biography
Dr Lilian Mary Nabulime is a sculptor and senior lecturer at Makerere University in Uganda. She often uses wood and found materials to produce figurative forms and functional everyday objects that retain the qualities of the materials. She has a keen interest in ways in which materials can inform certain ideas for viewers, such as […]
Dr Mary Clare Kidenda| Kenya
Biography
Dr Mary Clare Akinyi Kidenda is a senior lecturer and the academic team leader in the Department of Design and Creative Media of the School of Creative Arts and Media at the Technical University of Kenya. She has over 38 years of experience teaching art and design in secondary schools, tertiary institutions and universities. In […]
Ernestine White- Mifetu | South Africa| USA
Biography
Ernestine White-Mifetu is the Sills Foundation curator of African Art at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, United States. Specializing in the arts of the African continent, she has 20 years of experience working in the African arts and culture sector, and she has spent 12 years working exclusively in national African art museums in […]
Martha Kazungu| Uganda
Biography
Martha Kazungu is a curator, art historian and cultural consultant living and working between Nairobi and Kampala, Kenya. She is the founding director of the Njabala Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation facilitating visibility for women artists. Martha holds a Master’s Degree in African Visual and Verbal Art, with a focus on curating and media, from the […]
Dr Bernard Akoi-Jackson| Ghana
Biography
Dr Bernard Akoi-Jackson is a contemporary Ghanaian artist, writer, curator and educator who lives and works in Tema, Accra, Kumasi and any site that loosely falls within his post-studio praxis. His general artistic practice and research trajectory revolve around his notion of “disturbed methodologies”, comprising a critique of post- and de-coloniality, an investigation of quotidian […]
Dr Karen Milbourne| USA
Biography
Dr Karen E Milbourne is the J Sanford Miller Family director of The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, in the United States. Prior to this, she was senior curator and acting head of knowledge production at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington DC, associate curator of […]
