African Digital Art

Chepkemboi J. Mang'ira on beadwork as archive, the Maasai court cases nobody remembers when they type a prompt, and what a community-led AI framework would actually require.

A new generation of African game developers, concept artists, and world-builders is doing something the industry has never seen before — placing Africa at the centre of interactive worlds, and inviting African digital artists into a billion-dollar creative pipeline.

On 28 May 2026, Tiwani Contemporary — one of the few galleries in the world with a stated commitment to contemporary African and diaspora art — closed its doors on Cork Street in Mayfair. The lights went out while a show was still hanging. Breaking Down Realities, the final exhibition, featured Nifemi Marcus-Bello, Hadassa Ngamba, […]

Introduction The moment presence changes everything There is a moment in every immersive experience — the precise second when a viewer stops looking at your work and starts standing inside it — that no other medium can replicate. Extended reality makes that moment possible. And for African digital artists, it carries a particular weight: the […]