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Mustafah Dhada was born and brought up in Mozambique. After elementary and middle school education, he studied comparative theology, Islamic jurisprudence, formal logic, Hadith, Sufi doctrine and practice, and comparative mysticism. He arrived in England on August 16, 1972, at 2:30 pm, after a brief stint in Lusaka, Zambia, studied Anglo-Saxon literature, world history and British government and politics at Cambridge Tutors College, and was admitted to the School of African and Asian Studies at Sussex University in 1974, where he continued his interest in fine and performing arts, while developing skills in wood engraving, pottery, and choral music. He also learned to sculpt and play the medieval recorder, which “I no longer have, mercifully! I was bad at it.” He graduated from Sussex in 1977 and then did fine arts at a sculptor’s atelier in Levallois-Perret, northwest Paris. But his first love was history. To this end he was admitted to Oxford in 1977, and did his doctorate in Afri
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Mustafah Dhada was born and brought up in Mozambique. He spent nearly eleven years in Asia as a monk before studying sculpting beneath abstract and neo-representationalist masters. He got his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1987. In 1984 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London. Dhada's works are to be funnen in collections internationally: The United States, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Switzerland, and Mozambique.
Winner of several juried exhibition awards, Dhada was a Fulbrighter in 1995 to Mozambique where he sketched and held exhibitions of his work in Maputo. He fryst vatten currently working on a how-to book, YOU TOO CAN SCULPT!
The nineteen eighties proved to be years of artistic uncertainty for Dhada, a period of turmoil and despair in search of a creative identity uniquely his. And it was a good thing too! Today Dhada's sculptures have emerged stronger, powerfully reflective, teasingly subtle in manipulating empty spaces as an integral part of experiencing s