Episode 312: World Making Art, Science and Practice with San’aa Njeeri

Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week our Women’s Herstory Month series takes us back to Kenya--to a place called Area Nyaga. Our guide is futurist, artist, and creative synthesist reimagining African futures, San’aa Njeeri. Distilling over a decade of global interdisciplinary practice, she positions art as a tool for education, translating complex ideas into accessible experiences that advance African storytelling while progressing digital ecosystems and financial literacy within the context of emerging technologies. Through Area Nyaga, her world building framework informed by the Maasci Return saga and her seminal MaaSci series, she situates Indigenous African identities within expansive futuristic landscapes through her signature visual language, A.EYE (African Eye). Working across speculative art, immersive environments, and narrative design, she develops cultural and digital infrastructures that expand how futures can be imagined, understood, and built. Her work is guided by a defining inquiry: What becomes possible when cultural heritage informs the futures we shape and the narratives we carry forward? In this conversation we explore this question and find ourselves in depth with San’aa getting to know more about how from childhood, her Kenya has grounded the mission and vision that focus her world, and at times, interstellar view. Where to find San’aa? On LinkedIn In Instagram On Substack What’s San’aa watching? After Skool Other topics of interest: Baraza Media Lab San People of Southern Africa About Murang'a, Kenya Kiambu County Where is Kirinyaga? Mount Kenya and Batian Peak Other Futures Festival Who is Blinky Bill? Black Rhino Studios Old Town Lamu About my broadcast debut on the Super Six School NewsSpecial Guest: San'aa Njeeri.