ONEJIRU - Artist | Dreamer | Doer

✨ Meet @julietelias , aka Juliet Owino - a SHERO in Tech ✨ Watch her clip from the FUTURE FEMALE AFRICA Afro-Futuristic Convention x REEPERBAHN FESTIVAL, curated by Onejiru Arfmann, and get to know the vision behind her work. From Nairobi to Hamburg to the global stage of Reeperbahn Festival, Juliet is part of a generation of African women shaping the future of technology with purpose. As Tech Lead at LVCT Health, Juliet is leading the localization of UNICEF’s Oky Period Tracker App for the Kenyan context - making digital health tools more accessible and relevant for young girls. Beyond her work in tech, she creates spaces for the next generation to step forward: organizing girls-only coding camps and hackathons, where young innovators imagine, build, and present new features for the Oky app. Juliet is one of the newest members of FUTURE FEMALE AFRICA - an award-winning collective of SHEROs imagining new futures across Africa and the diaspora. Together, we are activating change. Let’s #PushTheRedButton - for a #PeriodFriendlyWorld. #FutureFemaleAfrica #SHEROS #IWD2026

In our recent conversation with Onejiru Arfmann, we kept coming back to the importance of hope, and it’s ability to change perceptions, create meaningful dialogues and a safe space for different opinions.💙 Onejiru Arfmann is the Founder & Creative Director of Future Female Africa, one of the initiatives to be featured on UN Live’s Culture for Impact 2025, working to amplify the agency, innovation, and visibility of women across Africa and its global diaspora. Read our full conversation on the power that culture and creativity has in dismantling hierarchy and cultivate belonging. #cultureforimpact2025 #hopeandaction

Through platforms like the Afro-Futuristic Convention, Future Female Africa creates spaces across Africa and its global diaspora that dismantle hierarchy, cultivate belonging and build pathways for women to shape equitable futures—creating ecosystems where creativity and leadership thrive. 🌍 @futurefemaleafrica builds spaces where women lead, create, fosters dialogue, and activate change—and is one of the initiatives to be featured on UN Live’s Culture for Impact 2025. ✨ Read the full story of how their work across culture, tech, wellness and impact creates honest dialogue, deeper listening, and shared understanding, shifting the room from passive to active. Link in bio📖 #cultureforimpact #storytelling

FUTURE FEMALE AFRICA has entered the global conversation, and the world is paying attention. FUTURE FEMALE AFRICA has been nominated for UN Live’s Top 10 Culture for Impact 2025 - a recognition that affirms what our work has stood for from the beginning: • that creativity is strategy, • that culture is a force for justice, • and that SHEROS from Africa and the Diaspora are shaping the narratives of the future. This nomination reflects a movement carried by many from the Afro-Futuristic Conventions to AFFRA (Afro Futuristic Food Renaissance and Awakening), to the Push The Red Button – Activate Change campaign on Menstrual Health and Management (MHH), and to every SHERO who has lent her voice, craft, and conviction. Thank you, UN Live! And deep gratitude to all who walk with us. This recognition is also yours 💜 We have been shaping together the scene, and now it is being globally seen. The Time Is Now. #FutureFemaleAfrica #UNLive #CultureForImpact #TheTimeIsNow #FutureFrequencies #PushTheRedButton #CulturalLeadership #SHEROS

#TheTimeIsNow – The Recap Film Is Out on YouTube Our Future Female Africa × Afro-Futuristic Convention × Reeperbahn Festival recap is now live. A vivid glimpse of SHEROS coming together, lifting each other, performing “The Time Is Now,” and letting the energy speak for itself. It reveals the pulse of our gathering: the behind-the-scenes moments, the unapologetic presence, the advocacy for Menstrual Health and Hygiene, and the force of #PushTheRedButton – #ActivateChange campaign moving through all of us. This is what it looks like when women show up fully, creating, singing, connecting, and shifting the atmosphere. It wasn’t just an event. It was a spectacular come-together and rise of voices and love among us. Let the energy travel and encourage togetherness toward a more just tomorrow. ✨ Full film on YouTube → Link in bio.

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100K and rising! The Time Is Now 🔥 We did it, and we’re still growing! 🎉 Future Female Africa’s Anthem - “The Time Is Now” has surpassed 100,000+ views on YouTube 💫 This moment belongs to our incredible SHEROS: @sheebahricherthisyear (UG) @femi_one One (KEN) @mach.platz (GER) @onejiru (KEN/GER) @mayonde (KEN) @annabassy (ITA) @nicole_hadfield (ES/GER) @mari.ama____ (SL/GER) & @missleema Leema (GER), artists and voices that came together to ignite agency, unity, and vision. ✨ Premiered at the @Reeperbahnfestival Opening Show 2025, this anthem shows it’s more than music. It is a manifesto of collective agency and future possibilities from Africa and the diaspora for #MHH and beyond. 💛 And to all our SHEROS on the #AfroFuturisticConvention stage and beyond! @Bijoufortunate @Krysteensavane #Doreennabwire @JulietOwino @NaisulaLepariyo @ConnieKau #BelindaAbrahams @InassKondodji , @NadineKiala @Katharinabansah and the #HEROS @LaurenceEmson @NoahFelk @DennisNjenga and many more who continue to shape this movement through dialogue, creativity, and leadership: THIS milestone is yours too. Together, we are rewriting what visibility, equity, and leadership look like: The time is now and the movement keeps growing. 🚀 On the road to 200K and beyond! 🎧 Watch, share, and raise your voice — link in bio! #FutureFemaleAfrica #TheTimeIsNow #SHEROS #AfroFuturisticConvention #ReeperbahnFestival #PushTheRedButton #FutureFrequencies #AfricanWomenLead #AfroFuturism #MenstrualHealthMatters #ThePowerOfAgency #FutureIsFemaleAndAfrican

✨ Meet Onejiru — The Vision Behind Future Female Africa ✨ Artist. Activist. Entrepreneur. Cultural Producer. Visionary. Born in Nairobi and based in Hamburg, @onejiru has dedicated her life to building bridges between art, activism, and community — turning ideas into movements that inspire global transformation. As the Founder & Creative Director of FUTURE FEMALE AFRICA, Initiator of the #AfroFuturisticConvention, and Creator of #AFFRA – Afro Futuristic Food Renaissance & Awakening, she amplifies the creativity, leadership, and innovation of women across Africa and the Diaspora. She also serves as Global Connection & Impact Officer at @vivaconagua Board Member at @rockcity_hamburg and Advisory Board Member of @keychangeeu , shaping spaces where culture, purpose, and equity meet. Through music, storytelling, and collective dialogue, Onejiru is redefining visibility, empowerment, and agency for a new generation. At the 2nd edition of the Afro-Futuristic Convention this year — in collaboration with @reeperbahn_festival — she brought together global voices, merging art, tech, and culture to imagine a more just, inclusive, and connected future. Her message is clear: The time for change is now. The future is female — and African. 🌍✨ 🎵 Check out the anthem “The Time Is Now” — link in bio — and drop your thoughts in the comments! 💛 #Onejiru #FutureFemaleAfrica #AfroFuturisticConvention #ReeperbahnFestival #TheTimeIsNow #FutureFrequencies #WomenInLeadership #AFFRA #VivaConAguaFoundation #Keychange #CulturalLeadership #AfroFuturism #AfricanExcellence

🩸 Invisible Toxins in Menstrual Products 🚨 FFA Founder Onejiru attended a World Health Summit side event “From Evidence to Action: Tackling Women’s Health Risks by Ensuring Menstrual Product Safety” hosted by the Gates Foundation, Siemens Stiftung, GIZ, and the Sanitation and Hygiene Fund (SHF). Experts shared preliminary Columbia University research revealing the presence of toxic metals in menstrual products, findings that are both groundbreaking and deeply concerning. A powerful reminder that women’s health demands safer design, stronger policy, and global accountability. As part of the closing, Onejiru was invited to share our anthem “The Time Is Now” - a powerful creative contribution to this vital global conversation through our #PushTheRedButton – #ActivateChange Campaign which we recently launched at our Afro-Futuristic Convention x Reepeebahn Festival 2025. The discussion, moderated by Katie Gallus, highlighted how science, policy, and advocacy can come together. It was also inspiring to meet Amdiya Abdul Latiff (Eco-Me Africa), Media Strategist Nika Maria Moro (Mutterschiff), and to reconnect with SHEROS from our Afro-Futuristic Convention including Naisula Lepariyo & Janina Breitling. Because menstrual health is not just medical - it’s about justice, dignity & and care, and above all, it's time to act! Because the time is now. ❤️ #FutureFemaleAfrica #PushTheRedButton #WomensHealth #MenstrualHealth #MHH #WorldHealthSummit #AfroFuturisticConvention #ActivateChange #TheTimeIsNow

✨Touchdown in Berlin 💫 So good to be back — recharging, reconnecting, and soaking in the city’s vibe ahead of an exciting event. 🌆💛 #BerlinVibes #OnTheMove #PushTheRedButton #TheTimeIsNow @FutureFemaleAfrica

Still resonating with the energy of the Afro-Futuristic Convention 2025 ✨ Under the theme Future Frequencies: One Room, One Story, Many Voices, we transformed the Schmidtchen Theater into a space of dialogue, creativity, and change , bringing together artists, innovators, and changemakers from across Africa and the diaspora. From tech to music, from movement to storytelling, each part of the day carried its own rhythm of empowerment: 💡 TECH × ACCESS TO FINANCE showed how innovation can redefine care and equity through technology and access. 🎤 MUSIC × STAGE explored how artists use their voices and lyrics to challenge stigma and rewrite narratives. 🧵 FASHION × AWARENESS reminded us that fashion can be activism — a statement of dignity, sustainability, and identity. 💃 BODIES IN MOTION turned movement into language, as dance became a form of expression, freedom, and body knowledge. 🎨 THE ART OF STORYTELLING made visible what’s often unseen — translating experiences into sound, image, and emotion. 🎶 And with AFRICAN MUSIC (R)EVOLUTION, we celebrated the power of sound as cultural memory and creative future. Each conversation, each performance, each connection resonated far beyond the room. Together, we imagined new ways of seeing, creating, and belonging. 💛 To all Sheros, partners, and participants — thank you for making Future Frequencies come alive. The energy continues, the stories expand. Because The Time Is Now. 📸 Credits: @johnnyjohnson_tb , @tine.rau #FutureFemaleAfrica #FutureFrequencies #AfroFuturisticConvention #ReeperbahnFestival ##FutureFemaleAfrica #FutureFrequencies #AfroFuturisticConvention #ReeperbahnFestival ##thetimeisnowTheTimeIsNow #FutureFemaleAfrica #AfroFuturisticConvention #FutureFrequencies #TheTimeIsNow #ReeperbahnFestival #WomenInMusic #Afrofuturism #CreativityForChange