 In 2001, a few years after arriving in the United States, Mbamara launched his first book "Poems of Life" and played the lead-actor role in an off-Broadway dance drama, Prof. Chudis' "Prisoner of the Kalakiri".In 2003, Mbamara directed and played the lead in the stage recreation of Zulu Sofola's "Wedlock of the Gods", in New York.Mbamara stars in two feature films