Jacque Njeri: Life after MaaSci

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Jacque Njeri’s story is one of success and inspiration. Her MaaSci series were first published on a friend’s blog before catching the eye of CNN and the BBC and making her world-famous. A year later her shepherds-turned-astronauts were exhibited at the 2018 Other Futures conference in Amsterdam, where she was speaking in the same event as her mentor Wanuri Kahiu and inspiration Nnedi Okorafor. As she is now getting ready to give her first TED-Talk, Jacque Njeri works around the Continent, associating her art to creative ICT projects that “empower young Africans with skills sufficient for them to be in charge of their future and heal negative ideas and notions regarding Africa. Especially their ability to contribute en masse to a global future through tech, design [and]content creation”. Her Maasai travel to space, she’s travelling the world, and we’ve travelled to her. Africultures met Jacque Njeri in her home city Nairobi and asked her about her past, present and future projects.