Soon after Adam Masava came back from his first successful art exhibition in the Czech Republic, he began teaching art to school children from his old neighborhood Mukuru Kwa Njenga as his way of ‘paying back’ his ‘hood for all it had taught him – both good and bad things—as he grew up.
“I also saw school-age kids ‘getting lost’ because they didn’t have useful things to do in their spare time. I wanted to engage them in art as a way of teaching them they could use their imaginations to solve their problems,” Masava says. One of those children, Ann Mumbi, 18, was just age six when she first met him teaching art at her school. She just came back to studying art with him a few months ago.
