b-sama: Field Notes: Saki Mafundikwa “Time for a new design curriculum” By Kristy Tillman Born (1955) and raised in Zimbabwe, Saki Mafundikwa studied fine arts at Indiana University and graphic design at Yale University. At Yale he discovered the existence of sub-Saharan scripts and alphabets designed by Africans themselves - without the influence of the Roman or Arabic alphabets - and this became his life-long passion to revitalize African visual traditions in the form of graphic design, he calls it the “African bauhaus”. View high resolution

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Field Notes: Saki Mafundikwa “Time for a new design curriculum”

By Kristy Tillman

Born (1955) and raised in Zimbabwe, Saki Mafundikwa studied fine arts at Indiana University and graphic design at Yale University. At Yale he discovered the existence of sub-Saharan scripts and alphabets designed by Africans themselves - without the influence of the Roman or Arabic alphabets - and this became his life-long passion to revitalize African visual traditions in the form of graphic design, he calls it the “African bauhaus”.

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