Neema Githere

Born in Nairobi/Kenya.

Neema Githere is a writer, artist and guerrilla theorist based in the #digitaldiaspora whose work explores love and indigeneity in a time of algorithmic debris. Having dreamt themselves into the world via the internet from an early age, her work prototypes relationality-as-art through experiments that span curation, community organizing, social design, travel and image-making. Githere has been building a research-based embodiment practice since 2016, beginning with a project called #digitaldiaspora which traveled to over 20 countries exploring how Afrodiasporic creatives were articulating new identities on- and offline.

Githere’s concept of Afropresentism – a term they coined in 2017 to explore diasporic embodiment in the age of Big Data – has influenced conferences and exhibitions in four continents. A co-author of the 2023 Lonely Planet guidebook for Kenya, their current travels are focused on exploring the ancient ruins scattered across the Swahili Coast of East Africa. Githere is a 2023–2024 Practitioner Fellow at Stanford’s Digital Civil Society Lab, where she is working on a project entitled Data Healing: A Call for Repair that employs indigenous value systems to develop a digital rehabilitation clinic.