Celebrating Kenyan Achievement in the Diaspora
Monday September 6th 2010

Jamhuri Wear, Zazzle and Alison Hewson (Bono’s Wife) raise money for Africa

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Kenyan designer, Kimathi (founder of Jamhuri Wear), has teamed up with Alison Hewson (Bono’s wife), co-founder of Edun Live, and retail manufacturing company, Zazzle, in an Africa For Africa charity T-shirt campaign.
Kimathi from Jamhuri Wear (Photo: Myron Christian Photography)
The partnership engaged designers to create t-shirts that have been on sale during the World Cup in South Africa. A portion of the proceeds from this initiative will go to Invisible Children, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing financial assistance to children by documenting their true untold stories in a creative and relevant way, with the goal of creating a positive change. You can Support this Noble endeavour and get your shirt here.  Look Good, Do GOOD!!

Other designers include:

  • Zetuzakale Productions, a group of East African designers whose inception evolves a dream of design and creative perceptions from African themes. Zetu-za-kale is derived from Swahili words that mean “ours from the past” and it is from the past that we draw our inspiration.
  • Bonk is a Kenyan clothing company that designs and makes tees and bags for the coolest Nairobi crowds. All designs are sketched-up, colored with funktitude and produced in Kenya by a sizzled ensemble of Kenyans: Ashi Kariuki, Aika-Grace Temu, and Fady Rostom.
  • Jamhuri Wear founder and designer Kimathi was raised in 1980s Nairobi, Kenya. He credits his Mum for piquing his sense of style, Leaders from elsewhere across cultures and disciplines also count as inspirations Fashion designers Ralph Lauren and Nigo (Bathing Ape), visual artist Yinka Shinobare, business maverick Richard Branson and perhaps most profoundly, Nigerian afro beat pioneer Fela Anikulapo Kuti. ”Fela, to me was a style icon,” muses Kimathi, “and he is probably our biggest icon. He was Africa cool before it was even cool to be African.”
  • G1 Media is a robust, design company based in Uganda with a unique perspective covering design, creativity, innovation, and consumer psychology. G1 Media believes effective design is somewhat like a composition written for a symphony orchestra, in that it requires several instruments working symbiotically in order to achieve the desired result.
  • David Ssengendo is a fine Ugandan artist and graphic designer with a background in painting, printmaking, and illustration. He has shown his work in the All Artists Exhibition at the Nomo Gallery in Kampala and has done illustration for Macmillan Uganda.
  • Paul Douglas Kihiko is a graffiti artist and designer who is currently working as an artist coordinator with the British Council in Kenya. In addition to doing commissioned artwork for various organizations in Nairobi, he has also done freelance graffiti and design for a wide range of clientele.

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