Reinata Sadimba was born in 1945, in the village of Nemu, Mozambique.
Daughter of peasants, she received the traditional education of the Maconde ethnicity, which included the manufacture of utilitarian objects in clay (plates, pitchers, etc.).
In 1972, during the armed struggle, she joined FRELIMO and in 1975 she began experimentation in her works, beginning to be known in Cape Delgado for the “strange shapes” of her ceramics. During the war, she moved to Tanzania where she stayed until 1992, and then returned to Maputo.
Reinata Sadimba is now considered one of the most important women artists of the entire African Continent. She has received several prizes and her works are exhibited in Belgium, Switzerland, Portugal, and Denmark. Her works are also represented in several institutions, from the National Museum of Mozambique to the Portuguese Ethnographic Museum or Culturgest’s Modern Art Collection, and in numerous private collections around the world.