Reggie V Khumalo, Where Freedom Meets the Canvas

From a tent on the side of the roads to the Ubuntu Art Residency Village in Zanzibar, Reggie “The Nomad” Khumalo has lived a story where freedom, art, and Ubuntu are inseparable. Known for riding his motorbike across the continent with little more than his brushes and a belief in spirit, he has turned a life of motion into a movement of meaning.

In this moving episode of Listen To Your Footsteps, Reggie reflects on:
• How a collapse in his early career humbled him and re-ignited his purpose.
• The spiritual turning point on the Wild Coast that made him choose the road.
• Why Ubuntu is more than an idea, it is the strangers who fed, funded, and sheltered him.
• How selling his art now funds school fees, food programmes, and community projects across Africa.
• Building the Ubuntu Art Residency Village in Zanzibar as a living archive of his journey.
• Why he believes “the God you’re looking for is within” and how listening to nature shapes his art.

With raw honesty, humour, and vision, Khumalo reveals what it means to bet on yourself, to trust the road, and to turn painting into service. Whether you know him as an artist, a traveller, or a World Food Programme High-Level Supporter, this is a conversation about finding freedom wherever the canvas meets the journey.

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Show Music by Kweku 'Taygo' Baffoe

Produced by ⁠⁠⁠Ayob Vania