Mwinji Nakamba Siame
Mwinji Nakamba Siame is a freelance fiction and non-fiction writer, and researcher with a niche in art, popular culture, books and social and cultural analysis and critique. In her fiction she mostly focus on African women's experiences and deconstructing cultural norms-be they helpful or unhelpful.
She completed the coursework component of Sociology including assisting on the first sociology of art and popular culture post-graduate course at UCT. However, She left that path deciding that she wanted to research and write away from academia to allow me access to topics and methodologies that are not yet widely accepted in academia-given the limitations of dominant western epistemologies.
She sees the future of the arts in Zambia being the basis for personal, social and political learning (as it is to some extent already in some of our indigenous rights of passages and traditions). And also, the springboard upon which communities are able to galvanize indigenous knowledge and practice to further develop us economically, socially, emotionally and even spiritually.
She has been published in numerous US based literary magazine as well as one or two based on the continent. Her most recent experimentations with non-fiction criticism, analysis and storytelling have seen me write for magazines like Projektor (film essays), Art Dusseldorf diversity package and now closed-down publishing house Catstone Books where she was a semi-permanent employer. At present her most permanent gig is as a seasonal reader helping select boundary breaking fiction for Splitlip Press (US) to publish , and she has a fictional biography/hybrid collection of essays and short stories forthcoming as a chapbook from DGP.
April 2023
She completed the coursework component of Sociology including assisting on the first sociology of art and popular culture post-graduate course at UCT. However, She left that path deciding that she wanted to research and write away from academia to allow me access to topics and methodologies that are not yet widely accepted in academia-given the limitations of dominant western epistemologies.
She sees the future of the arts in Zambia being the basis for personal, social and political learning (as it is to some extent already in some of our indigenous rights of passages and traditions). And also, the springboard upon which communities are able to galvanize indigenous knowledge and practice to further develop us economically, socially, emotionally and even spiritually.
She has been published in numerous US based literary magazine as well as one or two based on the continent. Her most recent experimentations with non-fiction criticism, analysis and storytelling have seen me write for magazines like Projektor (film essays), Art Dusseldorf diversity package and now closed-down publishing house Catstone Books where she was a semi-permanent employer. At present her most permanent gig is as a seasonal reader helping select boundary breaking fiction for Splitlip Press (US) to publish , and she has a fictional biography/hybrid collection of essays and short stories forthcoming as a chapbook from DGP.
April 2023
