Outer World Women

What if Afrikans reconnected with Outer World Beings?

2019
We asked 12 of our favourite East African, female graphics designers, illustrators and artists to create pieces around the theme, and let their imaginations run wild.

HYBRID AFRICAN

In a world where Africans reconnect with outer space beings they mate and create a hybrid species who communicate through extra sensory perception.

Their faces have an electric connection on one side of the face …outer world beings have advanced technology and this piece was inspired by that.

CHEBET KIMETTO

YELlow

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we see a woman who is in space with inverted sci-fi pyramids, possibly after defeating the alien invasion, despite the aliens having left a mark (oh her shoulder)

and she also appears to be getting a bit transparent.


MAROON

LEONA.PNG

We see a Devilish Angel, if Africans could interact with outer world beings and produce offspring they would look like that.

I used a muse @nita_barbara to create these pieces from her past photo shoots.

The Amber Archways


The princess is not amused

TARALIGHT

I’ve started a small art series titled ‘Kosmo Sculptor’ about giants who sculpted/constructed the planets & universe eons ago, while also trying to preserve/repair them and this is Kosmo Sculptor #1 aka ‘Yula’.


In The Neon Cluster

The average size of the sculptor is equivalent to a planet

TARALIGHT

This is sculptor #2 aka ‘Teo’


In the Kosmo Sculptor universe, all the planets have their numbers carved in after they’re created.

Over time these rocks gradually wear out and begin to from massive cracks.


Lava is used as an ‘adhesive’ to try keep the cracks from progressing.


Everything is also drawn pretty much to scale, the average size of the sculptor is equivalent to a planet (e.g size of Jupiter) and the sizes of all the planets may vary and some end up crafting planets over 1000x their size or under.”


AFROWARRIOR

&

AFROQUEEN

PRECIOUS NAROTSO

As an illustrator and animator, my work centres around being blackity black black and the different spaces we occupy in the world.

I consider myself a bare maximalist

because I use the little I have to make alot.

All my illustrations are done on my phone.
Showing you don’t need the expensive equipment to create.

Narotso participated in Nairobi Design Week 2021 under the theme 'Together'.

THE ESSENCE OF THE PURPLE FLAMES

CHELA

In this maze of life for us to reach the tree of realities we experience things that give us strength.

And this strength eventually allows us to show the power that is within us.

That’s our essence.

Cherwon Nancy (Chela) works primarily in the medium of painting; acrylics on canvas and paper.

She also led the mural painting at Nairobi Design Week 2020 as part of the #LabelledHuman campaign. The main themes she tackles are on culture and identity.  

YAJAYO

ADELAIDE JACHI

(At this point I want to even add that I believe God is a woman)

The first thing I thought was what outer world beings?

Then I thought of the universe.

The universe is the giver of everything.

It gives you what you think of or what your mind attracts.

I read this from the book ‘The Secret’ by Rhonda Byrnes.

That is why the piece shows a galaxy of glowing stars all over the solar system and the woman is at the centre, somehow trying to sort of do a spell.

SAYARI

JACQUE NJERI

Jacque Njeri is multi-disciplinary creative and visual artist.

NEO-AFRICA

WANJIRA KINYUA

The timeline of the illustration is some time in the future when the nations of Africa have been able to unite and Pan-Africanism has been achieved.

NURU

MUKAMI (MXM AFRIKA)

Nuru is aware of being pure spirit.

She connects with greater beings that she believes created everything around her.

RECONNECTED

NADDYA ADHIAMBO

We are image bearers of God, the root creative force.

As Africans, there is so much about our earthly and beyond earthly selves that has been erased.

Because we’ve been cut off from how much we look like God, we are lonely and lost.

When we do reconnect, I imagine she’ll embrace us, and share with us what’s on her mind.


REBIRTH

CYNTHIA THUKU

An afro futuristic character design inspired by the ancient Egyptian belief in an afterlife, where the soul was immortal and the human body was transported from this world to a replica of the same,

an Egyptian paradise in the higher planes of the outer world which was home to the divine.

THE PORTAL

NYAMBURA KARIUKI (NASH OH MY)


Sufficiently advanced technology may as well be magic to the uninitiated.

Scientists from an advanced planet have returned to Africa. They have deemed us ready to learn and teach with them, if we choose to walk through the portal.

Eons ago, they came to perform experiments and conduct observations upon life itself. Africans who witnessed them saw benevolent spirits and even copied their attire.

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