Lema Kusa (born 24 July 1944) is a graphic artist and painter from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
He also took courses at the Liege Graduate School of Business and was a visiting student at the University of Louvain's Institute of Political and Social Science.
[1] As soon as he returned to Zaire, Lema Kusa took the position of professor and head of advertising of the newly formed Academy of Fine Arts[clarification needed] (l'Académie des Beaux-Arts).
He painted drunks, prostitutes, market figures, beggars and idlers with a strong expressionist palette and a distinctive and subtle humor.
He participated in the National Symposium on Authenticity in September 1981 at N'Sele held by the Writers' Union of Zaire.