Saki Mafundikwa is the founder and director of the Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts (ZIVA) a design and new media college in Harare. He has an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University. He founded ZIVA in 1999 after working in New York City as an art director and design educator. His book, Afrikan Alphabets: the Story of Writing in Afrika was published in 2004 and is currently out of print.
Saki is award-winning film, Shungu: The Resilience of a People premiered at 2009’s International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). Saki spoke at TED2013 in Long Beach and received 2022’s Lifetime Achievement Award from the UK’s Design & Art Direction (D&AD). He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of the Arts London (UAL) in 2023. He is currently working on a revised edition of Afrikan Alphabets which he hopes to publish in 2026.He lives on his farm in Mhondoro, Zimbabwe.
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