Buhle Ndhlovu

Buhle Ndhlovu is a writer, editor and curator from Windhoek. She is interested in images, in the alchemy of images, and in understanding images as entities that perform. Her writing and occasional image-making explore how words, images, sounds, and silences articulate different kinds of knowledge. Thematically, Buhle’s work explores black representation and black interiority.

Buhle is the winner of the inaugural Bank Windhoek Doek! Literary Awards Poetry Prize. In 2022, as a Chevening Scholar, she obtained a Master’s in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester. In 2024, she completed the Zeitz MOCAA & University of the Western Cape Museum Fellowship, where she learnt about curatorial practice, collections management, and contemporary scholarship on art discourse from the continent and its diaspora.

She is currently producing a series of interviews and writing for the ARAK Collection, focused on the work of seven Namibian artists whose work resides in the Collection. The interviews intend to invite the artists’ voices back into the Collection, hopefully serving as a site for reframing, reclaiming and rewriting art histories through the voices of those typically underrepresented. She currently serves as the editor of WAITHOOD Magazine.

Between thinking/making/writing, Buhle enjoys brewing tea, watching films and experimenting on the best ways to fry potato chips.