Kelele Pod

Linda Butare aka. Nunu the Creative is the founder of Kwivuga, Uganda’s influential poetry and spoken word platform. What started as a space for emerging artists to share their work, culminated in a huge show at the Kampala Serena Hotel in 2023. But the pressure of building such a project took its toll. Nunu takes us behind the scenes of her story and shares openly about her fight with burnout and...

Atuhaire Collins Benda is a Ugandan technologist, AI software engineer, and innovator who builds AI‑systems tuned for Ugandan culture, languages, and communities. He helped develop the Uganda Cultural Content Benchmark (UCCB) to ensure inclusive, culturally‑aware AI models. He is also the tech lead for the Akatuuti Platform. 🔗More from Collins https://www.collinsbenda.com https://x.com/kolynz_b...

Rasheeda Nalumoso is the Regional Programme Manager Creative Economy with the British Council Arts team based in Kampala. She draws from 15 years of experience as creative producer across the UK and Africa, and her involvement in festivals, residencies, artist led collaborations and new ways to build thriving creative and cultural economies. 🔗More from Rasheeda and British Council Arts https://x....

Kashushu is a visual artist from Kampala, whose vibrant, abstract digital work blends lines, patterns, and geometry to reimagine human figures, landscapes, and nature. She has exhibited locally and abroad (including NFT NYC in New York and Berlin residencies), launched generative NFT collections (“Pineapples Day Out” and “Bush Baby Club”), and co‑founded Blocart Creatives Ltd to elevate the Web3 a...

Kenneth Muhangi is an award-winning Ugandan Lawyer, Lecturer, and Digital Innovation Expert specializing in Intellectual Property and Technology Law — with a focus on digital trade, fintech, data protection, and emerging technologies like AI. Kenneth is passionate about helping African creatives protect and grow their ideas in the digital age. 🔗 More from Kenneth https://x.com/xcenneth https://ww...

Tobias ‘Tobi’ Fluck is a freelance art director and motion design all-rounder with a love for charming characters, storytelling, and graphic design. He’s been based in Kampala for several years and is the Founder of Kelele Collective, an initiative with the mission to support multimedia creatives to build a career from their talent. Find out more at https://kelelecollective.org/hello 🔗 More from...

Fiona ‘Kemi’ Kemigisha is a Digital Content Creator, a Lawyer and Team Leader at Khama Digital Content Hub, where she trains the next generation of digital creators in Uganda. Kemi is also a co-host on the award-winning YouTube talk show, The Unpopular Opinion UG. 🔗More from Kemi https://instagram.com/khamadigital https://youtube.com/@theunpopularopinionug 🚀Uganda’s Multimedia Industry Podcast A...