Creative Knowledge Resources

𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗗 𝗪𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗥 ✍🏾 | In this poetic mixed-medium poetic interview, valiant / waiyaki / wamuoyo () interviews three of the women they consider their “art-mothers”, veteran vessels of art in East Africa: Chelenge van Rampelberg, Theresa Musoke, and Tabitha wa Thuku.

In the activity and the publication of the interviews, they include readings of the ekphrastic poetry that they have written about these mothers’ work, and the work that was also present in the recent Nairobi exhibitions that featured them.

valiant / waiyaki / wamuoyo explores – through poetry and conversation – the possibilities of firmly establishing clear and true and intimate knowledge of artistic lineages in East Africa, knowledges that will not be washed away, neither by forgettings nor by masculinisations of history.
𝗥𝗮’𝗶𝘁, who also presents their creations as 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘁 / 𝘄𝗮𝗶𝘆𝗮𝗸𝗶 / 𝘄𝗮𝗺𝘂𝗼𝘆𝗼, is a portal by nature, and a betterer by choice. They practice as a spirit artist – a knowing bridge between the realms – through their work in writing & performing poetry; in holding conversation/space; and, in inducing words & feelings to dance, to flow, and to free. They share their time as a diviner, a channel, and an activator as Mganga Msupuu, travelling the African continent and seeking to support all who receive into deeper connection with themselves, their Sovereignty, and the Benevolences that surround them. Ra’it & their work have the effect of calming, of soothing-saying, of encoding & activating: of helping us set ourselves, and keep ourselves, freer & freer.