Hi, my name is Neema and I am a writer, relational architect, 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, Neema Githere’s work prototypes relationality-as-art through experiments that span curation, community organizing, social design, travel and image-making. Githere (b. Nairobi) has been building a research-based embodiment practice since 2016, beginning with a project entitled #digitaldiaspora – inspired by Anna Everett’s Digital Diaspora: A Race for Cyberspace (SUNY Press, 2009) – which traveled to over 20 countries exploring how Afrodiasporic creatives were articulating new identities on- and offline. Their practice has evolved into an examination of networked repair through cyber-cartography, with a focus on Afropresentism – an inquiry into how descendents of exile can invoke somatic attunement amidst systematised algorithmic displacement. 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.

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