African Digital Art

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A few months ago we featured African children animated series Tinga Tinga Tales. Scheduled to go on air in February in the UK, Tinga Tales is one of the most ambitious animation projects that has taken place in East Africa. Showcasing the talent of local artist, Tinga Tinga Tales promises to be an inspiring African [...]

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This week the Nairobi tech community introduced the iHub, Nairobi’s Innovation Hub for the technology community. This space is designed for the growing tech community in Kenya and aims to support and encourage designers, programmers, and entrepreneurs around Africa.  There is an open call for designers to participate in this great project.
The iHub project includes [...]

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Yvonne Muinde is a painter and matte painter currently residing in Wellington, New Zealand. Her work mainly focuses on the challenge, truth and evolution. Born in Nairobi, Kenya, she begun her career at age ten painting murals on her bedroom wall. Since then she attended the Savannah College of Art in Georgia and completed her [...]

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Africa Knows is a digital project run by Ted Fellows Sheila Ochuboju and Joshua Wanyama. The project is a photojournal that at looks at the continent through the lens of Africans….
The story everyone knows and yet no one knows. Africa Knows is about the challenges, triumphs, dreams and nightmares of being an African in a [...]

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Africa has been buzzing about the recent release of the First Kenyan Sci-Fi Pumzi (swahilli word for breath). After the global success of South African District 9 more audiences are looking out for African made films. Pumzi recently entered into the Sundance film festival and Filmaker Wanuri Kahiu hopes that this will be one of [...]

Kenya’s Just A Band interview on Kenyan animation and music.