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MWENYEJI SPIKES
Mwenyeji Spikes, born Mathews, is a literary critic, author, podcaster and a thought leader in the creative enterprise sector in East Africa. Based in Nairobi-Kenya, the prolific writer has been involved with various literary projects such as the 2014, Full Circle Poetry anthology publication among other project in the arts and literary field. He explored his gifting in writing from the age of 14 years in fictional writing and poetry as well as music. After school, Spikes got actively involved with the vibrant Nairobi contemporary arts scene collaborating with renown poets such as Namatsi Lukoye, Tear drops among others and founded the Central Wacka Wacka festival, a platform for arts and cultural heritage in Central Kenya. With an interest in broadcast and digital media, Spikes embarked on content creation through his regular weekly podcast, the Kenyan podcast and 54 Africa correspondence that have enjoyed great reception by the growing audience as he juggles between broadcast media, music production, authorship and a progressive thought leadership movement on Afro-futurism.

With a passion for media, Spikes has collaborated with Black Hot Fire on numerous productions focused on educating the mass on culture, history and other facets of African heritage of multiple digital media platforms. On a mission to foster the common understanding and perspective of the African people regarding traditional cultures & heritage, Spikes 54 has self published a popular series of books titled Mwanzo focusing on African culture, heritage & Swahili Language.

Mwenyeji Spikes production work encompasses projects that change perceptions towards the great African continent by correcting stereotypes that have culminated as a result on the innacurate representation of Africa globally.

SPIKES54AFRICA
The Spikes54Africa documentary, written & produced by Mwenyeji Spikes in collaboration with Jumbo Swa, an African think tank was a debut project produced in September 2019 with the aim of showcasing the lingual diversity in African cultures. Traversing across different African nations such as Kenya, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Zambia the documentary demonstrates the development of various African languages as well as the unfortunate disappearance of some that went extinct in different parts of the continent. Active