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✏️ Professional drawer 🗄️ | 👩🏾‍🎨 Designer 🖍️ @thecontinent.org
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This cover by @wynonamutisi.bsky.social.
Cozy edition this week. Get it while it's chill.
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Welcome to Issue 223 of The Continent

In this dumpster fire of a year, we’re still finding what’s worth saving — sport, art, community, and joy across Africa.

Read it here: bit.ly/223_TC
This is the cover of The Continent, dated 6 December 2025, illustrated by Wynona Mutisi. In the foreground, we see the back of a woman sitting comfortably on a couch. Her hair is styled in two neat braids. Draped over her lap is a mustard-yellow blanket, and she is quietly knitting a pastel-coloured garment. Several balls of yarn in pale shades of blue, lilac, and cream — rest on the coffee table in front of her. The coffee table is wide and wooden, and on it sits a teapot, a cup of tea, a plate with two biscuits, and an open book. The headline reads: “Crafting beauty and calm in a year of chaos.”
December 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Overlay mostly works for me when i'm doing some lighting effects but as soon as it's barely visible on a character i quesiton my whole art choices
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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hey, #KidLitArtPostcard

i try my best to capture nostalgia and whimsy in my work. i love bright swathes of colour, sketchy lines, and stories with interesting characters.

i’m currently open for MG, GN, & cover work, etc. 🧃

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portfolio: www.MichelleWemegah.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Welcome to Issue 218 of The Continent

El Fasher has fallen — the last Darfuri city to resist the Rapid Support Forces. After a 500-day siege, the Sudanese army withdrew, leaving 250,000 civilians at the mercy of genocidal militias.

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This is the cover of The Continent, dated 1 November 2025, Issue 218. It’s illustrated by Wynona Mutisi. The headline reads: “Genocide resumes in Darfur as Sudan tears apart.” The artwork shows a map of Sudan and parts of surrounding countries. Within the map’s borders, two distinct regions are coloured differently — the western side (Darfur) in warm orange-brown tones, and the eastern side in soft purplish-pink. Both regions are filled with drawn faces of people, suggesting large populations. The faces in the orange-brown area look somber and weary, evoking suffering and displacement. The faces in the pink area appear calmer, though still serious.
October 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Little hand drawn animation and banjo theme I made. It's been a year since my brother's passing, it's hard to type stuff so l'll just let the video speak for itself. Thank you for watching. Keep going, enjoy the sandwiches.
September 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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One of my favourite things about the @thecontinent.org is the artistic/ creative direction. Every cover feels like a new piece of art.
If ever your team hosts an in person exhibition @simonallison.bsky.social @wynonamutisi.bsky.social - I am there!
August 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Powerful: current life in Goma (eastern Congo) through the medium of the comic book: “The city is stuck. It is a purgatory that leaves its residents bereft of words.” There’s insecurity and the prices are skyrocketing while local banks are locked out of the national system. The Continent, page 13.
August 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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The cover art on this week’s edition of @thecontinent.org?? 🔥 😍
a man wearing a pink hat and a pink jacket says tens across the board !
ALT: a man wearing a pink hat and a pink jacket says tens across the board !
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August 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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trying out blender again
July 14, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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add yours!
a watercolor comic of 'stuff in nature I always stop to look at' mossy rocks, a little stream, a tree that fell over, dappled lighting
June 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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With depth and academic rigour, Koyo Kouoh told the stories of our diverse, magnificent and culturally rich continent to the world. Whether it was through the art institutions she taught at or the events she curated, Africa was the centre.
Koyo Kouoh, 1967-2025
With depth and academic rigour, Koyo Kouoh told the stories of our diverse, magnificent and culturally rich continent to the world.
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May 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Algiers with Fethi Sahraoui.
The strange sadness of Algiers
We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Algiers with Fethi Sahraoui.
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May 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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It’s no wonder why we always turn to stories of rebels to fill our imaginations?

Had the pleasure to illustrate Jannah for the new edition of Star Wars Women of the Galaxy.
May 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Hopped on the #starterpacknoai trend. Also, I have never done a meet the artist illo - this will be it.

#noaistarterpack #humanartist #procreate #procreateillustration
April 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Illustrated me has more personality I fear

#procreate #selfportraitillustration #ootd
April 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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The Syrian Arabic word for a hamster is أبو جراب (abu jrab), where jrab refers to a pouch/saddlebag/tote. And abu often means “father of,” but can also function as a general honorific (like “mister”). So it’s not too big a stretch to say the Syrian Arabic word for a hamster means “Mister Saddlebags”
A hamster / mister saddlebags with EXTREMELY chubby cheeks
April 12, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Things I drew (and liked) in our first season of The Continent this year.

#editorialillustration
An illustration of brown murky rain water after a flood. The viewer is on the ground, beneath the surface of the rain water and they can see only the three pairs of feet of a bronze statue found in Gaborone, Botswana while the rest of the statue is above the water. On the surface of the water, the viewer can see dangling legs of a chicken being carried by the water and the shadows of the statue above.
April 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Welcome to The Museum of Stolen History.

This season, we profiled eight historical artefacts from every corner of Africa. We call it The Museum of Stolen History, in recognition of the fact that much of Africa’s history has been looted or erased.

Read it here: bit.ly/TCMoSH
The cover of The Continent's Museum of Stolen History special edition shows a cabinet of historical artefacts which were looted from the African continent. It was illustrated by Wynona Mutisi. It shows Ngwi Ndem (‘Bangwa Queen’), The Golden Crown, The Rashid (Rosetta) Stone, The Lions of Tsavo, Okukor, The Cullinan Diamond, Kakuungu and Ekori.
April 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Welcome to Issue 194 of The Continent

Zambia’s pact with copper mines has decimated another river.

Read it here: bit.ly/TheContinent...
The cover of Issue 194 of The Continent is by illustrator Wynona Mutisi. It shows a Zambian Air Force helicopter dumping lime onto a acid polluted river. The headline says "Acid flows in Zambia's rivers".
March 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Welcome to Issue 192 of The Continent.

Botswana prepared for drought. Then it flooded. Climate chaos is the new normal.

Get your copy here: bit.ly/TheContinent...
The cover of Issue 192 of The Continent (1 March 2025) is an illustration by Wynona Mutisi. It shows Botswana's Three Dikgosi monument from the viewer's point of view. The monument is under water and showing the three chiefs from the knees up in dirty rain water. In the foreground are the words written in white: "Botswana prepared for drought. Then it flooded". #ClimateChange #Africa #Botswana #CycloneDikeledi #SouthernAfrica #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #TheContinent #AfricanJournalism
February 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Part 2 in @thecontinent.org's #MuseumOfStolenHistory series covers Tewodros' II, King of Kings of Abyssinia, gold crown - looted during the British Army’s 1868 siege of Maqdala.
Illustration showing, under the title "The Museum of Stolen History", an almost empty museum showcase, now filled with two objects - the golden crown of Tewodros II in the upper centre added to the wooden Ngwi Ndem figure covered in the series' first episode.
February 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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The Museum of Stolen History: The Golden Crown, with its stunningly delicate filigree, belonged to Emperor Tewodros II, the King of Kings of Abyssinia. It was the most remarkable artefact looted during the British Army’s 1868 siege of Maqdala, the king’s hilltop fortress capital.
The Museum of Stolen History
Things can be taken. Their stories must still be told.
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February 5, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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The Golden Crown is most famously associated with Emperor Tewodros II, but this artefact also had a previous life, existing for nearly a century before he seized it. (Illustration by Yemsrach Yetneberk)
Illustration note, by Ethiopian illustrator Yemsrach Yetneberk: The Golden Crown is most famously associated with Emperor Tewodros II, but this artefact also had a previous life, existing for nearly a century before he seized it. It’s that life which I chose to reimagine. This illustration (above) conjures up the occasion on which the nobles who commissioned the crown – Empress Mentewab and her son, King Iyyasu II – gave it to the priests of the Church of Our Lady of Qwesqwam. Mentewab had recently lost a son and the crown, adorned with important biblical figures, was given to the priests to remind them to diligently pray for the prince’s departed soul.
February 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Highly recommended new series in @thecontinent.org on looted #CulturalHeritage & #colonialism:

"The Museum of Stolen History", curated by
@shola-lawal.bsky.social, art direction by @wynonamutisi.bsky.social - Part 1 on #NgwiNdem from #Cameroon, pp. 19-22:

www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...
Opening page of the "Museum of Stolen History" series in The Continent, showing the drawing of a mostly empty museum showcase with just one object: the wooden sculpture of Ngwi Ndem on the upper left shelf.
January 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Welcome to Issue 187 of The Continent

African opposition figures usually boycott elections after disillusioning runs. Venâncio Mondlane believes his victory in Mozambique’s election was stolen. He's doing things differently and it's already paying off.

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The cover of issue 187 of The Continent (25 January 2025) is an illustration by Tanzanian political cartoonist Gado. It depicts Mozambican politician Venâncio Mondlane (wearing a charcoal suit and blue tie and holding a light brown briefcase) as a ventriloquist. He has a neatly combed high top fade haircut and in his other hand he is holding a puppet. The puppet is the newly-elected Mozambican president Daniel Chapo (wearing a blue suit and red tie). Chapo is frowning and holding a black briefcase. In the foreground are the words: "Upending Mozambique's establishment" in charcoal font.
January 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM