The Nairobi-born artist, theorist and writer Neema Githere has had a research-based practice since 2016, beginning with #Digitaldiaspora, which traveled to more than 20 countries documenting how Afrodiasporic people were expressing new identities on- and offline. In 2017, Githere coined the term Afropresentism, with a focus on Afrodiasporic experiences in the age of Big Data. The artist is also a 2023-24 Practitioner Fellow at Stanford’s Digital Civil Society Lab, where they’re working on “Data Healing: A Call for Repair,” a project that develops a digital rehabilitation clinic, with indigenous value systems at its core.
