Esther Mwema

Esther Mwema uses storytelling to paint the relationship between big tech and digital colonialism. In her AFRO-GRIDS project she marries decolonial narratives and imaginative storytelling to explore the reality of undersea internet cables throughout the African continent. In her first-ever Master Class, the emerging artist and open internet leader will teach how storytelling can be used as a method for challenging digital colonialism, injustice, inequality, and power asymmetries. This Master Class offers explorations on how storytelling as a methodology can foster new imagination and play a central role for envisioning alternative realities for just and equitable digital futures. Esther Mwema shares her creative process in decolonial constructs for counter narratives, character development and indeed, constructive reimaginings.