Manzi Leon

Rwanda

Manzi Léon is a self-taught visual artist from Rwanda. His work focuses on identity, strength and emotion. He uses vibrant colours and bold forms to explore stories of everyday people, especially women. His expressive acrylic paintings combine personal experiences with cultural depth.

Steven Nyaga

Kenya

Steven Nyaga is a Kenyan contemporary artist whose work focuses on stylised portraiture. His paintings feature bold, colourful backgrounds and intertwined surface patterns that appear on the skin of his subjects, blending realism with abstract design. Through this visual language, Nyaga explores identity, beauty and individuality in modern African society. His portraits are both striking and introspective.

Dela Anyah

Ghana

Dela Anyah is a Ghanaian artist whose work transforms discarded materials, especially used tyres, into sculptural forms. Through cutting, weaving, and reshaping waste, he explores themes of identity, sustainability and renewal. His practice reimagines waste as a medium of resilience and rebirth, deeply rooted in local context yet speaking to global conversations around consumption and transformation.

Sena Tues

Ghana

Sena Tues is a Ghanaian contemporary artist known for his vibrant portraiture. Working primarily with acrylics on canvas, his style is characterised by intense colour contrasts, stylised facial features and abstracted human forms.

Sheila Fuseini

Ghana

Sheila is an abstract artist who works primarily with acrylic paint and leather, creating distinctive collage pieces that merge texture and emotion. Her practice is deeply inspired by nature, but even more so by her personal life experiences and her interactions with others. She paints intuitively, employing a range of experimental techniques to help realise her creative vision. Through her work, Sheila explores themes such as mindfulness, compassion, inner peace, and healing.

Gianle Lametá

Italy

Gianle Lametà is an Italian versatile illustrator and craftsman. His art ranges from illustration to woodwork, ceramics and even terrarium making. His daily creative agenda varies depending on his mood and inspiration. Yet there is a common thread that binds together all his works, and that is especially evident in his drawings - it is the creation of a dreamlike world.

Kwame Akoto-Bamfo and Osramba Team

Ghana

Kwame Akoto-Bamfo is a Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist, an alumnus of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (BFA, MFA), a fellow of the Yale Directors Forum at the Yale Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH), and an educator also known for his racial equality and cultural activism work. He is the founder of the Nkyinkyim Museum in Nuhalenya-Ada, and the creator and sculptor of the Nkyinkyim Installation in Ghana, the Legacy Museum, and the National Monument for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, USA. He is also the creator of the Freedom Parade Festival, the Ancestor Veneration Ceremony, and Nkyinkyim Za: Creative Communal Labour Festival.

Samuel Lovi

Ghana