WAKILISHA was born in 2019 out of a simple but urgent belief: our stories matter.
Not just the headlines or the highlights, but the everyday gestures, the textures of home, the quiet and the not-so-quiet mastery of craft, the slang, the songs, and the ways we balance what we’ve inherited with what we’re creating. So we began to write, film, and photograph. We document African culture for us. To see ourselves more clearly, to remember, to celebrate, and to pass it on.
We make cultural s**t happen
Today, WAKILISHA operates as a creative studio and cultural platform focused on African storytelling. We produce high-quality video interviews, editorial features, audio stories, published works, and experiential content that center the lived realities of artists, makers, and thinkers across the continent and diaspora. Our work spans digital media, physical activations, and archival projects, all rooted in the belief that cultural expression is both a creative asset and a strategic resource.
We don’t do this alone. WAKILISHA is built through collaboration with filmmakers, fashion designers, music producers, poets, photographers, language keepers, installation artists, community archivists, and countless others shaping African culture in their own mediums.