Day 3: Sunday, 22 November 2026

DAY 3 - Sunday, 22 November 2026 at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe

Radical Hospitality

In African philosophical traditions, hospitality is a condition for collective flourishing. The principle of Ubuntu/Unhu, that one becomes human through others, expands land, memory, time, and the more-than-human world. Against ongoing histories of extraction and colonial violence in cultural institutions, radical hospitality positions relationality as both an ethic of being and a strategy of doing. This day asks how museums might practice openness amid exclusion, generosity within scarcity; and what it would mean to inhabit them not as sites of authority, but as shared dwellings for contested histories and possible futures.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Thembinkosi Goniwe, Art Historian, Curator, and Writer, Rhodes University Grahamstown, South Africa.

Chronist: Dr. Memory Biwa, Historian and Artist, Bravebird Research, Pungwe Listening, Berlin, Germany.

Moderated by (Introduction to the Day + Q&A Panel Discussion): Renée Mboya & Smooth Nzewi, members of the 2026 Content Steering Committee.

Key Themes of the Day to be addressed by the invited Speakers:

• Radical Welcome: Rethinking Access, Belonging, and the Politics of Invitation
• Emotional Infrastructure: Caring for Audiences and Museum Workers Alike
• More than Human: Hospitality in Times of Crisis