African Digital Art is an archive — documenting the digital art and culture of Africa and its diaspora.

Since 2009, African Digital Art has documented the digital creativity of Africa and its diaspora — tracking how artists, designers, animators, and technologists across the continent and beyond are building new visual languages with the tools of their time.

What started as a small platform following a handful of digital artists has grown into an international archive spanning 17+ years and 54 countries: illustration, animation, photography, collage, AR/XR, AI art, gaming, typography, and more. It’s one of the longest-running records of this work anywhere — and it keeps growing.

We’re not just a gallery. Our editorial work sits at the intersection of technology, culture, and creativity — asking what it means to make digital work rooted in African cosmologies, languages, and ways of seeing, rather than importing frameworks from elsewhere. That’s why you’ll find long-form essays and artist features here alongside the archive itself: on Orisha traditions and machine learning, on indigenous knowledge systems and ecological imagination, on what African artists actually built during the NFT boom, on collage as an act of resistance.

Our archive is our moat and our responsibility. Every artist we feature, every piece we preserve, adds to a record that doesn’t exist anywhere else at this scale.

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Help keep the archive running

African Digital Art is independently run. Keeping 17 years of work online — hosting, maintaining, and continuing to add to the archive — takes real, ongoing cost. If this platform has been useful to you, as a reference, a source of inspiration, or a place to discover new artists, consider supporting it directly.

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Every contribution goes toward keeping the archive accessible and free for the artists, researchers, students, and curious visitors who rely on it.

Get in touch

Whether you’re an artist who wants to be featured, a publication looking to collaborate, or someone who just wants to say hello — we’d love to hear from you.

Email: contact@africandigitalart.com
Instagram: @africandigitalart
Facebook: facebook.com/africandigitalart

If you’re an artist and want your work considered for the archive, tell us a little about your practice and include links to your portfolio or social channels — we review every submission.

African Digital Art was founded in 2009 by Jepchumba. 2009–2026, African Digital Art. All rights reserved.