Paulo Chibanga is an Entrepreneur, Architect, Creative Arts Business Professional. He has a B.Tech in Architecture at Wits Teknikon. and is currently the Country manager and shareholder of Enserve Moçambique, an Industrial maintenance company focused on all solutions for the containment of liquids and gases in the Utilities, Petrochemicals, Food and beverage and Mining Sectors. He is also the Vice President of AIMO, the Mozambique Industrial association responsible for the advocacy and stakeholders engagement with the government.
Architect, Entrepreneur, Mozambican Music and Culture Champion
In the creative industry Paulo is also the general director of Khuzula, a Mozambican company that operates in the area of Culture and Tourism. As part of its promotion of Mozambican Culture. The brand focuses on events, communication, digital distribution, Business incubation, mentorship, book publishing. The company is also the brain behind the yearly Azgo Festival, one of the the biggest international arts festivals in Mozambique, which it started in 2011, and is celebrating its 12th edition this year.
Paulo also leads the XHub Creative Business Incubator, an incubator that supports the development and incubation of Cultural and Creative Businesses in Mozambique. X-Hub also has the distinction of being the first Incubator in Portuguese-speaking Africa in Maputo. Under Paulo’s leadership XHUB has become the leading promoter and supporter cultural artistic and business skills of art makers from Mozambique. The initiative has also been able to partner with international organizations and agencies such as the Goethe Institute, The European Union, Siemens and other global multinationals.
Paulo is also the major driving force behind Moçambique Digital– MODIGI, the leading independent distributor that aims to create income for artists through their works, build fan communities for musicians and other creatives and record labels around the world.
Paulo Chibanga is one of our active members from Lusophone Africa and has been active in promoting our initiatives in our three key areas, education, cultural exchange projects , and economic impact in the Lusophone region of the continent. He is an active participant in ACA events and collaborates with other members of the ACA. In 2024, his company, Khuzula, was part of the Brushfire Festival in Eswatini, while Justin “Jiggs” Thorne, another of our members from Eswatini will be a guest at the Azgo Festival in Maputo this year.
His Goals Going Forward
At a time when the United Nations and the African Union put the importance of culture and the development of the music sector at the heart of their concerns, Paulo Chibanga firmly believes that students and future professionals, with their enthusiasm, curiosity and willingness to learn are the key to the future of Africa, and thus it is the responsibility of governments and the private sector to support their dream and help them to build Africa’s future. He continues to work from his native Mozambique to contribute to the synergy between Lusophone Africa’s stakeholders—artists, the public, producers, institutions, and its business and technology sector. His belief is that the Lusophone African music and culture ecosystem, an often underrepresented region in the discourse on the African creative industry, will be able to find a virtuous and sustainable economic model in order to promote music from Africa.
