More great work from our community in Nairobi coming out of last year’s #ARTivism Lab. The group D-Pax stands for the People of Dagoretti, a suburb of Nairobi, Kenya. The group is an open collective of young artists from the Dagoretti Panch Art School. Youth...
As 2014 draws to a close and we look forwards, we find ourselves tired but happy, daunted but excited, exasperated but full of love and hope. ‘All oppression is connected’, proclaimed artivists in Kenya at the Artivism Lab. What connects all modern liberation...
On a normal day, not many stood around and watched this ordinary wall in a football field in Githurai in Nairobi. Things changed on October 1 2014, when a group of activists, artists and local community members decided to give this wall a makeover. Take a look at what...
Kenyan activists put up over 100,000 posters across Nairobi displaying the phone number of a free call to sign a petition against adding taxes on basic commodities. Garbage collectors spontaneously travelled door-to-door handing out the posters. No one knows who...
The role of a new type of activist – the ‘artivist’ – is becoming increasingly important in Kenya and beyond. Since Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta came to power in March 2013, his regime has made one thing clear: Democracy is an illusion. The president, son of the...
