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We're super excited that the Film Africa festival starts in London this Thursday. 10 days of more than fifty of the best African fiction and documentary films from across the continent. With lively Q&As and panel discussions featuring leading African filmmakers, and a dynamic programme of cultural events!
Read more...We had the pleasure of working with acclaimed playwright and scriptwriter, Ade Solanke, to create an identity and website for Spora Stories. Spora Stories is invested in creating entertaining and exciting contemporary theatre and film, reflecting and diseecting the African experience in modern Britain, America and Africa.
Read more...Diasporan Darlings is a website dedicated to Africans living in the Diaspora. With articles about life, love and work in the Diaspora, the site shares experiences and showcases successes that will inspire and empower. Above all, the site, launched in June, is already creating a vibrant community and network. Asilia had the pleasure of working with the founders to create a logo and complementary graphics for Diasporan Darlings.
Read more...Last Friday, I had the honour of sitting on a panel at the V&A Museum's Afropolitans Friday Late. The topic: "what is an Afropolitan?" My esteemed fellow panelists were a joy to speak with and the challenging audience made for a very rich and exciting discussion. Read more of my thoughts over on Afri-love.
Read more...There's been no easing into 2011 for us. We've had a great number of enquiries and exciting new commissions that are keeping us super busy.
After relaunching Asilia last August, with our 3-person team, we're at that strange stage where we have all these great projects on the go but can't quite share them yet. We've decided to give you a small sneak peek of sorts, through holding pages and other links to intrigue:
Read more...For the last four months I have been trying out an idea we've had to create a platform to showcase apps from and for Africa. The idea came to us when one of our clients, The Media Legal Defence Initiative, asked us to implement an instance of Ushahidi for them and it got us thinking:
Read more...As some of you may know, I was recently on a trip back to Kenya. Unlike previous trips, I was now looking at it as an entrepreneur/businessman rather than as a student or an employee. This distinction proved important. As anyone who has ever bought a car will tell you, once you start considering a certain brand/model, you suddenly start to notice it everywhere.
Read more...Good news just in – our client, Out of Africa, just received a print delivery of some flyers we recently designed for them. Out of Africa is one of the UK's best-known platforms that promotes and profiles African arts.
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