NEW interview today with Egyptian visual artist El Tohamy: "Egyptian identity naturally exists within my work because it is inseparable from my cultural and visual memory. However, I do not aim to reproduce tradition literally. Instead, I reinterpret symbolic and emotional aspects of Egyptian culture through a contemporary visual language. Through Instagram and digital presentation, I try to create a balance between heritage and modern expression in a way that feels timeless yet relevant to today’s audience."
/2026/05/16/in-conversation-with-mohamed-el-tohamy/
Mona Taha: “I believe I still create from a place that interrogates the internal, sometimes it happens to be influenced by the outside expectations.”
/2026/05/11/in-conversation-with-mona-taha/
NEW Interview in today with Ugandan visual artist Mona Taha: "I discovered along the way that the life of an artist has its ups and downs too and this new body of work came from a place of acceptance, finding joy in experimenting and being playful, but also in the outside, wanting to hold onto the things that bring a sense of hope and contentment in this Duniya (life)."
/2026/05/11/in-conversation-with-mona-taha/
NEW Interview in today with Nigerian visual artist Gloria Eberechukwu Mmaduako: "I moved from painting traditional portraits into abstraction and expressionism. The face no longer had to hold the whole story. Color, gesture, attitude and texture could carry the weight of history and the urgency of now. In my work, vibrant color interplay becomes a dialogue between eras. I blend timeless narratives, culture, values, ancestral memory with contemporary conversations about identity, faith, and social change and life in general."
/2026/05/09/in-conversation-with-gloria-eberechukwu-mmaduako/
Awuor Onyango: “I think we need to dream our own dreams of what the art market in Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa, and its diasporas can look like. Right now, we’re still dreaming a European dream.”
/2026/05/08/in-conversation-with-awuor-onyango/
NEW Interview in today with artist and a co-founder of African Art Agenda Awuor Onyango: "I think about the audience a lot in my work. I often talk about the lived art traditions of East Africa, which, for me, are a direct response to colonial British propaganda that claimed East Africa had no art — that everything we created was merely “craft.” (I can give entire lectures on this, so I won’t go too deep into it here.) We never considered art as something singular or separate from life. The most popular visual arts in Kenya today are graffiti and matatu culture. These are art forms that Kenyan audiences can touch, interact with, add to, or even deface if they choose. They use iconography that Kenyans instantly understand — even if much of it comes from American television, which is another issue I think about deeply: the colonisation of our imaginations."
/2026/05/08/in-conversation-with-awuor-onyango/
Raymond Maged: "Life in Egypt has its pros and cons, but there are many issues that needs to be fixed truly. For example people cannot just live from paycheck to paycheck. I try leaving my mark on such sensitive subjects."
/2026/05/06/in-conversation-with-raymond/
