Cultivating creative entrepreneurship: The Nest Collective (Kenya)
- Tshepang Pooe
- Oct 11, 2017
- 2 min read
Whilst searching for creative collectives in Kenya, I stumbled upon a gem: The Nest Collective.
"The Nest Collective is a small army of thinkers, makers and believers living and working in Nairobi—
Together we explore our troubling modern identities, re-imagine our pasts and remix our futures. In all our works, we prioritize the acknowledgement and stating of our different individual perspectives and privileges, and our work strives to convey this dialogue.
Founded in 2012, the Nest Collective has created works in film, music, fashion, visual arts and literature such as the critically-acclaimed queer anthology film Stories of Our Lives, which has so far screened in over 80 countries and won numerous awards, and Tuko Macho—a groundbreaking interactive crime web series widely considered to be one of the best African TV series. The Nest Collective also founded HEVA—Africa's first creative business fund of its kind—to strengthen the livelihoods of East Africa's creative entrepreneurs."
With an on-site online shop, multiple projects ranging from Virtual Reality, Let This Be A Warning - A VR Short Film (2017), to fashion photography and story-telling Not African Enough: A Fashion Book (2017) (a personal favourite), The Nest Collective is an exemplary creative network cultivating creative entrepreneurship in Kenya, east Africa.
Without further ado, I've put together a visual showcase of Not African Enough: A Fashion Book (2017), a The Nest Collective project. The book is currently on sale and is available in two cover editions. Click here for further information.
(Images sourced directly from The Nest Collective website).
"Not African Enough" is a derogatory term routinely lobbed at African designers who step outside the narrow confines of what the world—and Africans—are told it means to dress, talk, think and be like an African. This book asserts our right to be more than enough."
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