Paul Kelemba (born 26 June 1962, in Nairobi), is a Kenyan self-taught comic strip artist and

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. He uses Maddo as a pen-name which was inspired by

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of New-York.

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

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, 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

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. In 2009, he compiled his ''It’s a Madd Madd World'' features into three volumes during a one-month residency at the Rockefeller Foundation

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in Italy. His international recognition includes residencies in Japan, Estonia and Germany. Maddo is the recipient of the 2015 CNN Multi-Choice African Journalist Awards. Maddo is associate producer at Buni Media Ltd, the producer of

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that was inspired by the French programme

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. He is also the chairman of Ketebul Music, a pilot music production organisation in Kenya run by Tabu Osusa.

References

Kenyan journalists 1962 births Living people Kenyan cartoonists People from Nairobi {{Cartoonist-stub