The Continent Issue 228 Cover
1/ Issue 228 of The Continent is out: Wagnerβs info warriors, post-Prigozhin. Leaked docs reveal their influence in 22 African countries. We focus on South Africa, Mali, CAR, Niger & Angola.
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This cover by @wynonamutisi.bsky.social.
Cozy edition this week. Get it while it's chill.
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
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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.
iβm currently open for MG, GN, & cover work, etc. π§
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This is the cover of The Continent, dated 1 November 2025, Issue 218. Itβs illustrated by Wynona Mutisi. The headline reads: βGenocide resumes in Darfur as Sudan tears apart.β The artwork shows a map of Sudan and parts of surrounding countries. Within the mapβs borders, two distinct regions are coloured differently β 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.
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Welcome to Issue 218 of The Continent
El Fasher has fallen β 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.
bit.ly/218_TC
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.
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!
Powerful: current life in Goma (eastern Congo) through the medium of the comic book: βThe city is stuck. It is a purgatory that leaves its residents bereft of words.β Thereβs insecurity and the prices are skyrocketing while local banks are locked out of the national system. The Continent, page 13.
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trying out blender again
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
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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.
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.
Itβs 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.
Hopped on the #starterpacknoai trend. Also, I have never done a meet the artist illo - this will be it.
#noaistarterpack #humanartist #procreate #procreateillustration
Illustrated me has more personality I fear
#procreate #selfportraitillustration #ootd
A hamster / mister saddlebags with EXTREMELY chubby cheeks
The Syrian Arabic word for a hamster is Ψ£Ψ¨Ω Ψ¬Ψ±Ψ§Ψ¨ (abu jrab), where jrab refers to a pouch/saddlebag/tote. And abu often means βfather of,β but can also function as a general honorific (like βmisterβ). So itβs not too big a stretch to say the Syrian Arabic word for a hamster means βMister Saddlebagsβ
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.
Things I drew (and liked) in our first season of The Continent this year.
#editorialillustration
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 (βBangwa Queenβ), The Golden Crown, The Rashid (Rosetta) Stone, The Lions of Tsavo, Okukor, The Cullinan Diamond, Kakuungu and Ekori.
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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 Africaβs history has been looted or erased.
Read it here: bit.ly/TCMoSH
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".
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Welcome to Issue 194 of The Continent
Zambiaβs pact with copper mines has decimated another river.
Read it 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
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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...
Part 2 in @thecontinent.org's #MuseumOfStolenHistory series covers Tewodros' II, King of Kings of Abyssinia, gold crown - looted during the British Armyβs 1868 siege of Maqdala.
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 Armyβs 1868 siege of Maqdala, the kingβs hilltop fortress capital.
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. Itβs that life which I chose to reimagine. This illustration (above) conjures up the occasion on which the nobles who commissioned the crown β Empress Mentewab and her son, King Iyyasu II β 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 princeβs departed soul.
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)
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.
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...
