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Commutes and canopies. Photograph by @danapatelph

Commutes and canopies.

Photograph by @danapatelphotography

You may notice that many Muslim-owned shops in tow

You may notice that many Muslim-owned shops in town are closed today. That's because it's Eid Al-Fitr – a festival following the end of fasting in during the month of Ramadan!

Happy Eid Al-Fitr to all our Muslim followers! 🌙

Brother Fabian by @sanaginwalla

Happy Kenneth Kaunda Day 🕊 Today we celebrate t

Happy Kenneth Kaunda Day 🕊 Today we celebrate the life of Zambia’s first republican president who was born on this day in 1924.

This rare, never-before-seen candid image from the @zambiabelonging collection, is a found print from Fine Art Studios on Chachacha Road, Lusaka (where Dr. Kaunda and fellow freedom fighters would frequent to have their portrait taken).

It was taken at the St. Ignatius Catholic Church in Rhodes Park Lusaka on 13th June 1971, during the wedding of his eldest son Captain Panji Kaunda to Harriet Mambwe.

Happy Women’s Day! Today is a special day for Ev

Happy Women’s Day! Today is a special day for Everyday Lusaka too - it’s our birthday!

It’s been exactly 4 years since we planted the seed and took the leap of faith to start this project. We are so grateful for what it has bloomed into, and look forward to how it will grow with all your support. Here’s to new exhibitions, products, workshops and observant musings of the banal, always!

Photograph by Sana Ginwalla @sanaginwalla

Moments from our @zambiabelonging launch exhibitio

Moments from our @zambiabelonging launch exhibition. Thank you to all the schools, friends, supporters and relations to those in the photographs who have made time to visit since we opened last Thursday! Your encouragement has been overwhelming and much appreciated.

The exhibition is still open at the Lusaka National Museum till 16hrs on Sunday 5th December. There is no entrance fee if you are visiting this particular exhibit!

Following venue and dates to be announced soon 💫

Photographs by @mulenga_thecreator and @misfitcreativemedia

[An exhibition from Everyday Lusaka and Zambia Belonging, curated by founder Sana Ginwalla (@sana.ononas). Including photographs dating from 1940s to the early 1990s from 20 different families in Zambia.

The growth of this project has been made possible with the Pro Helvetia Johannesburg ANT Adaptation Fund which is financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) @prohelvetia_johannesburg.]

Opening tomorrow evening at Lusaka National Museum

Opening tomorrow evening at Lusaka National Museum!

Zambia Belonging has been growing alongside Everyday Lusaka since July 2018. This is the first ever show we are doing in Lusaka from this collection so we would love to share this experience with you!

Come through and bring friends - show is free with drinks for the first 100 visitors! Dress vintage 😉

Wedding photograph from October 22nd 1983. This wa

Wedding photograph from October 22nd 1983. This was one of many forgotten negatives found in the attic of Fine Art Studios, Chachacha Road in 2018. The photographer and sitters are unknown to us, so please DM if you recognise anyone in the photo!

The collection of photographs found Fine Art Studios is what started Everyday Lusaka's journey into collecting and preserving old photographs of Zambia. We created a dedicated platform of our findings over on @zambiabelonging and our launch exhibition is in a week at the Lusaka National Museum on Thursday 25th of November! Check our story / link in bio for more details! Free entry!

Repost from @zambiabelonging – our counter-archi

Repost from @zambiabelonging – our counter-archive dedicated to exploring identity through photographs from the past. We will be hosting a launch exhibition at the Lusaka National Museum next Thursday 25th of November at 5:30pm! More info in our story or the link in our bio.

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1973. Studio photograph of 13-year-old Regina Munzomoka donning one of her favourite threaded hairstyles named ‘Zaire’ for a photoshoot at the Lilanda Family Studio.

“My mother grew up in Lusaka surrounded by people from the Kasai Tribe ⎼ people indigenous to the Democratic Republic of Congo. They taught her the skill of using cotton thread to braid beautiful hairstyles that she would eventually braid on me and my sisters and her grandchildren over the years. And although this image is a beautiful reminder of my parents' love ⎼ because he paid for the photoshoot and would eventually keep the picture ⎼ it is also a deep reminder of how far my roots and identity go, of not only being an African woman but also her daughter.”

⎼ Remembered by her daughter, Natasha. Swipe to see details on the back.

We will be exhibiting images from our @zambiabelon

We will be exhibiting images from our @zambiabelonging collection at the Lusaka National Museum on the 25th of November at 5:30pm. Have a look at our stories for more details!

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A scan of a postcard album from Fine Art Studios. These postcards were made and disseminated by the Northern Rhodesia Information Department before 1964, while Zambia was still known as Northern Rhodesia.

The collection found at Fine Art Studios is what started Everyday Lusaka's journey into collecting and preserving old photographs of Zambia. We created a dedicated platform of our findings over on @zambiabelonging. Follow for more!

#everydaylusaka #zambiabelonging

War memorial on Independence Avenue, mid 70s. Phot

War memorial on Independence Avenue, mid 70s. Photograph by Steve Moorey from our @zambiabelonging collection.

In preparation of the launch exhibition of Zambia Belonging that we are hosting on the 25th of November at the Lusaka National Museum, we are sharing old photographs of Lusaka that we have collected since we started the project 3 years ago! Link in bio + stories for more info 💫

#everydaylusaka #zambiabelonging

Basketball season at The International School of L

Basketball season at The International School of Lusaka in 1975.

Photograph by @harrymuntanion, from our @zambiabelonging project.

Zambia Belonging is hosting a launch exhibition on the 25th of November at the Lusaka National Museum. We will be showcasing photographs from Zambia’s past that we have collected since we started the project 3 years ago! Link in bio + stories for more info 💫

#everydaylusaka #zambiabelonging

Experience Zambia Belonging in person! We invite

Experience Zambia Belonging in person!

We invite you to join us as we explore identity, meaning and belonging in Zambia through photographs curated from over 20 families, showcasing different memories and paths of life.

This project is supported by an ANT Adaptation Fund grant from Pro Helvetia Johannesburg financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

@prohelvetia_johannesburg @everydaylusaka @colourculturearts

#everydaylusaka #zambiabelonging #antadaptationfund

Lusaka Post Office in 1966. Photograph from one of

Lusaka Post Office in 1966. Photograph from one of our @zambiabelonging contributors.

For the next few weeks we will be sharing old photographs of Zambia that we have collected as part of our counter-archive project Zambia Belonging.

#everydaylusaka #zambiabelonging

Flamboyant Flame Lily Trees on Cairo Road in 1974.

Flamboyant Flame Lily Trees on Cairo Road in 1974. Photograph by @harrymuntanion

Over the month of November, we will be sharing photographs of Lusaka from the 60s to the 80s, sourced from our @zambiabelonging collection 🎞

We can’t wait to show you the gems of images that our patrons have kindly contributed since we began this counter-archive 3 years ago! Keep your eyes peeled for more special updates on it this November 👀

Follow @zambiabelonging for more!

#everydaylusaka #zambiabelonging

A view of the Cairo Road roundabout and Findeco bu

A view of the Cairo Road roundabout and Findeco building taken from the Meridien Bank building (now COMESA) sometime in the 90s.

A photograph from our @zambiabelonging collection, which is built with contributions gathered from communities that have a relationship with Zambia.

#everydaylusaka #zambiabelonging

From the functioning fountain to the blue mini bus

From the functioning fountain to the blue mini bus, we are able to identify which point in time this photograph was taken, as our minibuses and roundabouts do not look like this today ⛲️ 🚎 In fact, this image was taken nine Octobers ago in 2012 by @alaska_sem. #ThrowbackThursday!

Lusaka’s landscape and infrastructure has changed and developed exponentially over the past 10 years. To understand what Lusaka looked like as it began establishing itself, over the month of November we will be sharing much older photographs of Lusaka from the 60s to the 80s, sourced from our @zambiabelonging collection 🎞

We can’t wait to show you the gems of images that our patrons have kindly contributed since we began this counter-archive 3 years ago! Keep your eyes peeled for more special updates on it this November 👀

Everyday Lusaka’s sister project Zambia Belongin

Everyday Lusaka’s sister project Zambia Belonging is hosting a webinar with Women's History Museum exploring the connections between family photographs, memory and identity.

Facilitated by Musenga Katongo, this webinar will be hosted by Sana Ginwalla (founder of Everyday Lusaka and @zambiabelonging) and Victoria Phiri (Curator at Choma Museum and the Women’s History Museum).

We invite you to join us and bring a family photograph of your own that you would like to share.

Register using the link in our bio!

Happy Independence Day! Today marks 57 years since

Happy Independence Day! Today marks 57 years since Zambia gained independence. How are you celebrating this long weekend?

Image from our @zambiabelonging collection. 1966, Matero Girls Secondary School. Graphic by Malin Mabika (@byemalin)

Moments from our “Outside In” exhibition which

Moments from our “Outside In” exhibition which inaugurated the new TotalEnergies Art Gallery at the Alliance Française of Lusaka on 30th September.

Thank you all who came through to support us – long-time followers, new faces, friends and fellow artists! It was a pleasure to see you all.

If you haven’t seen it yet or would like to visit again, the show is still on till the 6th of November 💫

Event Photographs by Kalenga Nkonge, Mulenga Mukonda and Andrew Knox-Kaniki.

[An exhibition from Everyday Lusaka, curated by founder Sana Ginwalla (@sana.ononas). Including archival, photographic and collage works from @zambiabelonging, Kalenga Nkonge (@bonkoti), @visulekabunda, Steve Moorey and Sana Ginwalla.]

The Booths. This image is one of many that will b

The Booths.

This image is one of many that will be on display at our Outside In exhibition @aflusaka this Thursday.

As you may know, Everyday Lusaka has a range of print and stationery products that have been in circulation since 2018. This year, we have produced limited edition mini prints specially made and printed in-house for our first solo exhibition. This quintessentially Lusaka street scene is one of them, and was taken by one of our brilliant participating artists Kalenga Nkonge (@bonkoti).

We will have some more exciting never-before-seen products on sale at the exhibition so we look forward to seeing you all on Thursday at 6pm to experience all the art – big, small and everything in between! More info on our stories 💥

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