Badsha was born in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal on 27 June 1945. His father Ebrahim Badsha was one of the South African pioneer black artists and a founding member of Bantu, Indian, Coloured Arts (BICA) organisation started by Durban artists in 1951.
He has exhibited his art in South Africa and internationally.
In 2015 he won the Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) Lifetime Achievement Award for Visual Artist In the early 1960s, Badsha produced "resistance art" and won a number of awards including Sir Basil Schonland prize in 1965 and the Oppenheimer award in 1969 after his work was featured in the Johannesburg exhibition Artists of Fame and Promise. He is also the founder of South African History Online, South Africa"s largest history website.
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