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Meet the growing global network of visionary change-makers reimagining the future for Africa and the world.
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The Ijeruka community is a global network of 1400+ business and nonprofit leaders, thinkers, activists, creatives, and healers with diverse wisdom and expertise.
Our members span diverse sectors and geographies, from emerging visionaries to seasoned leaders in governance, technology, media, health, and more, but they share a common mission: to create a life-affirming future rooted in dignity, equity and hope. They believe that true change starts from within and radiates outward into the systems and stories we create. They are building businesses that prioritise people and the planet. They are social architects crafting systems, spaces, and stories that heal and inspire. They know that the future of our countries and communities is ours to shape—and they are determined to act.
Whether you’re an individual or part of a mission-driven organisation, Ijeruka welcomes anyone that's driven to solve problems and create a positive impact. This is a space for those who embrace the complexity of our interconnected world and who are ready to lead from the intersections of systems, stories, and spirit.
Whether you’re an individual or part of a mission-driven organisation, Ijeruka welcomes anyone that's driven to solve problems and create a positive impact. This is a space for those who embrace the complexity of our interconnected world and who are ready to lead from the intersections of systems, stories, and spirit.
Mirriam Hillawi Abraham
Multi-disciplinary designer
Ethiopia
Multi-disciplinary designer from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. With a background in Architecture, she works with digital media and spatial design to interrogate themes of equitable futurism and intersectionality.
Dr Naseemah Mohammed
Professor of Education Policy
Zimbabwe
Research fellow at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, UVA. Her work focuses on the use of the arts as a pedagogical tool to overcome the vestiges of colonial educational methods in contemporary African classrooms.
Neema Githere
Cultural theorist
Kenya
Neema Githere (b. Nairobi, Kenya) is an artist and guerrilla theorist whose work explores love and indigeneity in a time of algorithmic debris.
Nu Goteh
Creative Director
Liberia
Liberian-born refugee, designer, strategist, creative director, social practitioner, and the founder of Deem Journal.
Panashe Chigumadzi
Award winning writer
South Africa
Panashe Chigumadzi is a Zimbabwean-born journalist, essayist and novelist, who was raised in South Africa.
Tobi Ayé
Somatic Practitioner & Educator
Benin
Trauma-informed, cultural somatic practitioner, working with individuals and communities to repair connections and integrate collective, intergenerational, individual, and systemic trauma
Tshegofatso Senne
Writer, Sangoma & Community Builder
South Africa
Black, queer, feminist writer, speaker and digital content creator. They write and speak on issues concerning feminism, sexual and reproductive health and pleasure, consent, rape culture, race, intersectional social justice and pop culture.
Uzoma Orji
Creative Technologist
Nigeria
Chidumaga Uzoma Orji is an indigenous futurist, visual and experiential artist and creative technologist. His work is concerned with unpacking post-colonial crises of identity, fuelling imagination in service of progressive African futures, and conceptualising a digital ethos for the 21st century that is reflective of ancestral technological modalities, all with a view to contributing to a liberated, free and healed African psyche.
We host online and in-person gatherings to bring community members together through collective learning and exploration.
From unconventional themes like Radical Hope, Digital Kinship, and Meeting Our Griots, to courses blending critical inquiry with embodied practices and creative exploration, we create sacred learning spaces where big questions can be asked, assumptions challenged, and purpose rediscovered. Designed by and for people of African descent, our events are deeply nourishing, allowing for authenticity, joy, and intellectual rigour to coexist. Whether virtually or in-person, Ijeruka is a playground of possibilities.
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Exclusive discounts on all online learning programs
Members-only content and programming
Host your own activations through our network
20% discount on select events with our partners
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