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Jacquie Atandji

Biography With Afro-contemporary creations inspired by her travels, designer Jacquie Atandji is described as a compulsive creator. She designs jewellery, accessories and decorative…

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Painter

Joe Okitawonya

Biography Joe Okitawonya is originally from Congo but, as he likes to put it, he experienced a second birth in Algeria — an artistic birth. His works reflect his thoughts and commi…

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JP Mika

Biography Jean-Paul Nsimbe Mika was born in 1980 in Kinshasa into a poor family. From a young age he began to put his artistic talent to use, and at thirteen, to earn his living, h…

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Kadidiatou Touré

Biography Of Malian and Senegalese origin, Kadidiatou was born in Senegal but spent a good part of her studies in the United States. She was raised in a fairly traditional Senegale…

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Kara Fall

Biography Kara Fall, an artist of Malian origin, is based in Dakar. His Dogon roots permeate his works. Kara also works extensively on the theme of music, with paper collage on a …

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Visual artist

Khéraba Traoré

Biography A visual artist, video maker and teacher of animated film at the Beaux-Arts in Dakar, Khéraba Traoré defines himself as an artist deeply committed to a cause close to his…

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Painter

Kofi Frimpong

Biography Kofi is a young painter of Ghanaian origin living in Paris. Before devoting himself to painting, he worked for several years in various communications and advertising age…

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Photographer

Lena Nian

Biography Lena Nian is a creative artist and photographer. She is also co-founder and co-producer of Fashion Weekend Gambia, the country's largest annual fashion event. She lives a…

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Engaged dancer

Lucas Katangila

Biography I am a Congolese dancer, choreographer, performer and activist living in Brussels. Through my artistic activities I want to bring people together, to share dance styles f…

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Mixed media

Mahamadou Khéraba Traoré

Dakar, Senegal

Son travail, d’une apparente simplicité formelle, révèle une imagination riche et multiforme. Sa pratique artistique, intuitive et en constante évolution, s’inscrit dans une recher…

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Artisan creator

Michele Dieme

Biography Michele Dieme is a Senegalese artisan creator who lives in Senegal. She is the founder of the Manganii brand — a Wolof word meaning transhumance. Through this term, the s…

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Painter

Mohamed Diabate

Biography A graduate of the Institut National des Arts de Bamako since June 2009, Mohamed Diabaté was top of his class at the Conservatoire Balla Fasséké Kouyaté in June 2014. He c…

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Mokodu Fall

Biography Mokodu Fall is a Senegalese artist born in 1975. He is the son of a diplomat. After practising his art at home in the early 1990s as a political cartoonist for the magazi…

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Photographer

Moussa Kalapo

Biography Moussa Kalapo was born in 1983 in Bamako. He is a visual artist principally known for his work in photography and video production, alongside his blogging activities aime…

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Designer

Moustapha Sy N’diaye

Biography A young Senegalese entrepreneur, Moustapha Sy N'diaye is passionate and committed to the development of his country. He completed his secondary education at the Lycée Gal…

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Jewellery designer

Ngoné Sagna

Biography Ngoné Sagna is a jewellery designer of Senegalese origin. She has been living and working in Paris for over 20 years. After an introduction to the trade with the haute-co…

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Painter

Omar Ba

Biography After abstract beginnings at the Beaux-arts school in Dakar, Omar Ba turned in the early 2000s to a resolutely figurative and narrative painting — a turn that coincided w…

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Ousmane M'baye

Biography Ousmane M'Baye, a Senegalese artisan-designer, draws on the richness of his cultural heritage to skilfully reinvent contemporary furniture and objects in which beauty and…

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Photographer

Paul Kidero

Biography Paul Kidero is a 23-year-old visual artist specialising in photography, based in Nairobi, Kenya. He worked as an amateur for a long time before turning professional six y…

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Stylist

Safiétou Seck

Biography Senegalese stylist Safiétou Seck is the founder of the clothing label SARAYAA. An economist by training, she has devoted herself to fashion and styling since 2014. SARAYA…

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Jewellery designer

Sarraounia Mpaka

Biography Sarraounia Mpaka is the creator and designer of the ethnic jewellery brand Adinkras Jewels, founded in 2017. Of Senegalese-Gabonese background, she is a great fan of all …

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Painter

Serge Mienandi

Biography Serge Mienandi is a Congolese painter who, through his painting, plunges us into a poetry of colours.

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Serimacen

Biography Serine Macene is a Senegalese painter offering a fine, precise painting of coloured pointillism. He defines himself as a citizen of the world. He distinguished himself no…

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Tallafe

Biography Tallafé was born in 1981 in Abéché, the second-largest city in Chad. Drawn to artistic creation early, he obtained an art diploma in 2008 from the Oldham School of Art in…

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