Saki Mafundikwa - Telling Zimbabwe's Stories
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Saki Mafundikwa Artist Educator Storyteller Zimbabwean
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Saki Mafundikwa is a Zimbabwean artist/educator who had every opportunity to leave his country for golden opportunities abroad, in the USA, Europe, or even the Middle East. After completing an MFA at Yale in the 1970s, and working in New York City, every artist’s dream, he moved his family back to his home of Zimbabwe. He opened a digital art school, ZIVA, in a country that often doesn’t have electricity. He wrote and published a book titled “Afrikan Alphabets,” which traces the history of typography to its African roots; a book he self-funded by teaching at universities in Zimbabwe, the USA, the UK, and Dubai. He produced a documentary film titled “Shungu” about 2006-2008, the years the Zimbabwe economy collapsed; a film that cannot be screened in Zimbabwe due to the controversial subject matter and the tight censorship rules in the same country. Despite living in Zimbabwe during one of the worst economic periods in the history of mankind, Mafundikwa has contributed to the development of artistic talent in the country of his birth.
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Saki Mafundikwa
Artist
Educator
Storyteller
Zimbabwean
An African storyteller
Who grew up in the land of…
…the Great Zimbabwe
Born to Baba and Mai Mafundikwa
Destined to do great things…
Saki soldiers on, telling Zimbabwe’s stories.
His award-winning documentary, Shungu, tells the impact of the
2006 political-economic collapse on
the people of Zimbabwe
A Father
Tilling the land...
Tilling youngminds…
…or simply chilling
“I HAVE 4 HEROES:MARLEY,
MALCOLM, MARCUS &
FELA”
SAKI MAFUNDIK
WA
A Zimbabwean
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