Ethiopia

Berhanu Mekonnen

Berhanu is a freelance artist specializing in oils and graphic arts. He has a Diploma in Fine Art from Addis Ababa University. He studied painting, sculpture, graphic arts and murals. He has drawn illustrations for several  publications, including a book on gender issues for the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction and a manual on adolescent sexual reproductive health for the German Foundation for World Population.

Yitagesu Mergia

Yitagesu is a freelance artist specializing in oil painting and graphic arts. He has a Diploma in Fine Art from Addis Ababa University. He studied painting, sculpture, graphic arts and murals. He has drawn illustrations for publications and posters on gender, family planning, AIDS, agriculture and workers' rights

France

Marc Roesch

Marc is a French agronomist who has been working in development for 27 years. A researcher at CIRAD in Montpellier, he was head of the CIRAD training service, and is now with the microfinance research programme. Click here to see a selection of his work.

India

Sugunasri Maddala

Sugunasri Maddala is a freelance knowledge management professional. She has a degree in  agriculture and associateship in information science. Formerly she worked in the information departments of ICRISAT and NAARM. She has drawn illustrations for tribal songs and stories, as part of her contract with SAKTI, a voluntary organization working for Tribals in Andhra Pradesh, India. She offers to make drawings for augmenting any knowledge  sharing activities. Her drawings can be viewed on http://sugunasrimaddalasdrawings.blogspot.com

Atmaram Pund

Indonesia

Wiyono

Wiyono specializes in illustration, cartography and graphic design. He formerly worked with the Southeast Asia office of the International Centre for Research on Agroforestry (ICRAF), http://www.icraf.cgiar.org/sea. He has been involved in producing various books, newsletters and leaflets for ORSTOM, ICRAF, CIFOR, JICA, JIRCAS, and ODA . Click here to see some of his drawings.

Kenya

Patrobas E L Edapal

Brought up as a Turkana pastoralist, Patrobas holds a diploma in art and design from the Nyalenda Catholic Mission art school in Kisumu. He has done paintings in churches in the Dioscese of Lodwar, CCF Turkana, and portraits for individuals. He has also done illustrations for posters on HIV/AIDS for SNV and on the econography of Turkana. The drawings on the right are from a book on drought for the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction.

Richard Iriga

Richard has a diploma in fine art from Buru Buru Institute of Fine Art and has worked with NGOs engaged in the fields of shelter, health, human rights and gender issues. He is creative director of Digi-Media, a firm specialising in graphics and other design-related services.

Ham Kakembo

CARE–Kenya, PO Box 43864 (or PO Box 67191), Nairobi, Kenya. Tel +254-2-724674, 724601, 630566, fax +254-2-728493

Ham specializes in illustration, painting, cartooning and desktop publishing. He has been involved in producing various communication materials for UNICEF, IUCN, JICA, Plan International and CARE–UK. He is now production co-ordinator of CARE–Kenya’s development communications unit.

Peter Wambu Kamau

PO Box 67605, Nairobi, Kenya. Tel. +254-2-244 055, fax +254-2-227 667

Peter Wambu is an architect and graphic designer. He has a degree for the University of Nairobi. He runs his own business, WEP Impressions, a designer firm based in Nairobi. He has worked for several NGOs and private firms engaged in the fields of shelter, health, human rights and gender.

Davidson Njoroge

P.O. Box 56279-00200, Nairobi Kenya. Tel. +254 710 568 241 or +254 733 120 874 or +254 20 8000 420

Davidson has a diploma in graphic design from Kenya Polytechnic. He has worked with various advertising companies and NGOs such as CARE, ActionAid and IUCN to produce communication materials. He also offers design services on a freelance basis.

Elijah Njoroge Njenga

Elijah trained as a graphic designer and has worked as a development artist with several organisations, including the Intermediate Technology Development Group, ActionAid, ABANTU, KHRC, and the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction. He has also worked with the schoolbook publishers MacMillan and Kenya Literature Bureau.

Bonaventure Nyotumba

Bonaventure is a freelance designer-cum-artist based in Nairobi. He has a diploma in fine art. He has worked as a designer/painter for Bellerive Foundation, CARE-Kenya, Catholic Relief Services, Rainbow magazine, Jacaranda Designs, Don Bosco, Jericho Church and the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction. He specializes in fine and graphic art, product design and desktop publishing. 

Hilda Adhiambo Obyerodhyambo

Hilda has a diploma in education with a major in fine arts. She taught for a couple of years, attended workshops on theatre and other art forms, and worked with KWS. She is currently with Mzizi Arts Centre as an artist, consultant, writer and critic.

Benjamin Ojwang

Benjamin has a BA in design from the University of Nairobi. He has worked as a designer for Longman Kenya, East Africa Educational Publishers, the University of Nairobi Press, and Oxford Tanzania. He produces freehand and computer-generated scientific and technical art for publications.

Alfred Ombati

Alfred is a freelance artist. He has worked for EPZ (Ancheneyer), Catholic Relief Services, and has developed story books for Ribena and Panadol. He is currently working with Cover Concept Ltd as an illustrator, as well as with IIRR. He does fine art, paintings, murals, portraits, book illustrations and comics.

Vincent Oneya

Vincent studied art at West End Communication Centre, Nairobi. He is a freelance graphic designer, cartoonist and artist. His cartoons have appeared in The Star and The Kenyan newspapers, and in the Post on Sunday magazine. His work has also been used in advertisements in these publications, and in books published by the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction and the Intermediate Technology Development Group. 

Mali

Alassane Ballo

Alassane is a Malian artist who studied at the Institut Nationale des Arts and at the Centre de Service de Production Audiovisuelle in Bamako. He studied the conceptualization and development of information, education and communication materials in the Centre d'Etude de la Famille Africaine in Lomé, Togo. He currently works for an NGO focusing on environmental education. He is the editor of the Journal Walia, a quarterly magazine on the environment aimed at schoolchildren, villagers and technical service staff in Mali.

Nepal

Kiran Chitrakar

Kiran is studying for his bachelor's of fine arts in Lalit Kala College, Kathmandu. He specializes in traditional Nepalese art, especially portraits. 

Harihar Shrestha

Ward no. 7, Jumla Bazaar, Jumla, Karnali Zone, Nepal or Kupondol, Lalitpur Nepal  Tel. +977-1-527415

Harihar is a self-taught artist from Jumla. He specializes in oil painting, embossing, portraits, and line drawings. He has an art exhibition in Jumla and, has done work for the Forest Department in Jumla and the Agriculture Information and Communication Centre of the Ministry of Agriculture in Kathmandu.

Asha Kaji Thaku

Subidhanagar, Koteshwor Ward No. 35, Kathmandu, Nepal
Tel: +977-1-496821

c/o ICIMOD, P.O. Box 3226, Jawalakhel, Lalitpur, Nepal
Tel. +977-1-525313 (Ext 680)
Email thaku@icimod.org.np or akthaku@mail.com

Niger

Rhissa Ixa

BP 818, Niamey, Niger

Déssinateur, artiste, créateur: draws Touaregs and their culture.

Philippines

Bernie Remoquillo

Artist-illustrator with the Department of Educational Communication, College of Development of Communication, University of the Philippines at Los Baños since 1977. Has drawn many of the illustrations in user-friendly information materials published by the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction. 

Sénégal

Sidy Lamine Dramé

Sidy Lamine Dramé - graphic artiste and illustrateur extraordinaire

Background: Advanced diploma in artistic studies at the Institute National des Arts du Sénégal, trained in design, graphics, comics/story boards, etc.

Dramé has worked for 24 years with the Society for Development and Extension in Agriculture (SODEVA). His main focus has been illustrating extension and training materials on rural development. He has been the principal illustrator/comic genius for the ALIN (Arid Lands Information Network) magazine, Baobab, since 1991.

South Africa

Meg Jordi

A self-employed freelance illustrator for the past 15 years, Meg has a wide range of experience with local and international NGOs, publishers, authors and editors, in a variety of styles and mediums. These include illustrating in a naturalistic way, either in detail or simple black and white line drawing. She also often works in watercolour. She draws illustrations in a whimsical “New Yorker” style for the South African magazine Noseweek. She is frequently commissioned to illustrate books for children, along with textbooks and handbooks about environmental issues.

Uganda

Jovan Bahizi

Jovan studied fine art at Makarere University, graduating with a BA in art and majoring in sculpture and painting. He is director of Fineline Pictures, a Kampala-based illustrations firm. He has done book illustrations for MacMillan Uganda, Heinemann Publishers, the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization, on AIDS, community development and agriculture. Jovan also has experience producing storyboards and illustrations for Ugandan TV. He is skilled in computer graphic design and illustration and desktop publishing.

Zimbabwe

Jacqui Terry

jacqui.terry@gmail.com
www.jacquiterry.com

Jacqui grew up in Zimbabwe and is a freelance artist who studied at the University of Cape Town. She has done illustrations for several NGOs related to HIV/Aids prevention in southern Africa, and has recently completed illustrations for an educational programme for children in Ethiopia. She is involved in illustrating children's books in local African languages for children in the diaspora. She has worked in Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa and Canada.