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ZCCD 







ZIMBABWE CULTURAL CENTRE IN DETROIT’Smission is to educate, archive, & promote the arts & culture of Zimbabwe. We continuously strive to encourage strong ties between culture-producers & residents in Zimbabwe, Detroit, & abroad, acting as catalysts for critical artistic production as well as cultural exchange between communities.



 
ZIMBABWE CULTURAL
CENTRE DETROIT






COMRADES /


SAKI MAFUNDIKWA

RESIDENT /
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Zimbabwe Institute of
Vigital Arts (ZIVA)
Saki Mafundikwa is the founder and director of the Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts (ZIVA) a design and new media training college in Harare. He has an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University. He returned home in 1998 to found ZIVA after working in New York City as a graphic designer, art director and design educator. His book, Afrikan Alphabets: the Story of Writing in Afrika was published in 2004. Besides being of historical importance, it is also the first book on Afrikan typography. It is currently out of print. His award-winning first film, Shungu: The Resilience of a People had its world premiere at 2009’s International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). Active on the international lecture circuit, he was a speaker at TED2013 in Long Beach, California. He has keynoted the first ever Pan African Design Institute (PADI) conference in Ghana in February, 2019. He has also run workshops for design students in Europe, North, South and Central America, and Afrika. He has been published widely on design and cultural issues and is currently working on a revised edition of Afrikan Alphabets which he hopes will be published in 2021. He lives and farms in Harare, Zimbabwe.

We partnered with the Communication Design Department of the College for Creative Studies in Detroit to host Saki Mafundikwa for a few days academically, and get to know our neighborhoods thanks to the geneorisity of the Power House Productions for accomodations.
◄ Lecture at the College for Creative Studies, Detroit, October 9, 2019.

Pictured here with Susan LaPorte (Right), the Chair of the Communication Design Department, College for Creative Studies. ▶