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Omar Badsha
South African artist and activist (born 1945)
Omar Badsha (born 27 June 1945) is a South African documentary photographer, artist, political and trade union activist and historian. He is a self-taught artist.2
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Born Jun 27, 1945.1
About
He has exhibited his art in South Africa and internationally. In 2015, he won the Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) Lifetime Achievement Award for Visual Art. In 2017, he received an honorary doctorate Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil), for his work in the field of documentary photography in South Africa. He was also awarded a Presidential honor The Order of Ikhamanga in Silver for "His commitment to the preservation of our country's history through ground-breaking and well-balanced research, and collection of profiles and events of the struggle for liberation."
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Companies
Early life and education
Badsha was born in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal on 27 June 1945. He is a third-generation South African of Indian origin and comes from a Gujarati Muslim Sunni Bohra family. His father Ebrahim Badsha was one of the South African pioneer black artists and a founding member of the Bantu, Indian, Coloured Arts (BICA) organisation started by Durban artists in 1951. His artistry was impacted by his father's zest for Arabic calligraphy, the artwork of Cecil Skotnes and later, in life by the work of Dumile Feni.
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Career
Occupation: photographer.6
Personal life
Awards
Links
Sources
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- 1WikidataOmar Badsha on Wikidata
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- 9WikidataOmar Badsha: award, on Wikidata
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- 11WikidataAfrapix, Founder
- 12Wikimedia CommonsOmar Badsha photo by SANGONeT ICT for NGOs Conference, CC BY 2.0