Maddo

Paul Kelemba (born 26 June 1962, in Nairobi), is a Kenyan self-taught comic strip artist and caricaturist. He uses Maddo as a pen-name which was inspired by Mad Magazine of New-York.

Maddo
Maddo in Nairobi, in April 2018
Maddo in Nairobi, in April 2018
BornPaul Kelemba
(1962-06-25) 25 June 1962
Nairobi, Kenya
NationalityKenyan
Area(s)Cartoonist

Career

After completing his education, Paul Kelemba started off at a local advertising agency in Mombasa and later worked for various Kenyan magazines, including Coastweek and Daily Nation, as an illustrator and cartoonist through the 1980s and 90s. .

Since 1992, Maddo is the author of the weekly satyrical page It's a Madd Madd World in The Standard (Kenya).[1] In 2009, he compiled his It’s a Madd Madd World features into three volumes during a one-month residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Italy.

His international recognition includes residencies in Japan, Estonia and Germany.[2]

Maddo is the recipient of the 2015 CNN Multi-Choice African Journalist Awards.[3][4][5] Maddo is associate producer at Buni Media Ltd, the producer of The XYZ Show that was inspired by the French programme Les Guignols.[6] He is also the chairman of Ketebul Music,[7] a pilot music production organisation in Kenya run by Tabu Osusa.

References
  1. "It's a Madd Madd World101". Bunimedia. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
  2. "INK & PIXELS: Exhibition on Kenyan Comics in Bremen Featuring Kenyan Cartoonist, Maddo". 4 September 2016.
  3. "2015 Winners and Finalists". CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards. Archived from the original on 2018-06-21. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
  4. Owoko, Anyiko (2015-10-06). "Madd World with Paul Kelemba". DSTV.
  5. Ohito, David (2015-10-10). "Standard Group cartoonist Paul Kelemba wins CNN MultiChoice African journalist of the year award". Standard Digital.
  6. "About Maddo". Its a Madd Madd World!!!.
  7. "About Us » Ketebul Music".
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