Kungoni Centre of Culture and Art, Mua Mission, Malawi

Kungoni Art Project (KAP)

Claude Boucher Chisale and Joseph Kadzombe work on ‘Mother of Cry – Baobab’ (2006). This painting on cloth hung formerly in the Missionsärtzliches Institut, Würzburg, Germany and is now in a private collection. It reflects on the hunger that is an everyday reality of rural Malawi.

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KAP was started in 2012 to secure the historical record of Kungoni Centre of Culture and Art.

The principal activities of KAP are: to digitalize the written and photographic archive of Kungoni Centre; to preserve it for a future generation; and to make it accessible to visitors and scholars by compiling both original and new material into a searchable Database of all artwork and artists (present and historic) associated with Kungoni Centre. It is intended that KAP Data will lay the foundation of a substantial new publication on Kungoni Centre’s place in the history of art in Africa.

KAP will be of interest to the many people who have come to know Kungoni Centre over the years and to all those who have not visited but are interested in disciplines that include African (specifically Central African) art, African Traditional Religion, Christianity in Africa, the peoples and cultures of Malawi, Inculturation and Missiology.

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Above: The 1984 wall painting (‘I Have Come to Set Fire to the World’) that used to decorate the East end of Mpherere Parish Church, Archdiocese of Lilongwe, Malawi. It was painted over in March 2012.

- Artwork -

Click here to read an account of the panels (2006) that decorate the Chapel of Reconciliation of the Half Way House of the Prison Fellowship of Malawi, Balaka, Malawi.

Click here to read an account of a carving (2011) by Thomas Mpira that was commissioned for the opening of the new library at Douai Abbey, England.

- Liturgy -

Click here to listen to a Malawi Mass (2009) that was recorded to celebrate the opening of St. Mary’s Church, Chiphaso Parish, Archdiocese of Lilongwe, Malawi. It was decorated by Kungoni Centre.

Click here to read an account of the Christmas liturgy (2013) at Mua Mission.

- Tradition -

Click here to read an account of the Nc’wala Ceremony of the Ngoni (2014), which is celebrated at Mtenguleni Village, Chipata District, Zambia. [Not Kungoni Centre]

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