
Akimanizanye Jemima known as per her artist name Kakizi Jemima is a multidisciplinary artist and a curator who was nominated for Forbes Women Africa Social Impact Awards 2023. She started painting in 2013, and her passion for advocacy pushed her into creating and learning through art about different topics with community members of all ages. Over the years, she has explored different topics such as women empowerment, teenage pregnancy, gender-based violence, environmental protection and mental health through art. It didn’t take Jemima long to notice a lack of visibility for women in visual arts in Rwanda and with fellow women artists, they founded the Rwanda Womxn Artists Collective (R.W.A) with the aim to raise the visibility of women artists and to support each other. This further inspired Jemima to embark on a journey to curating exhibitions under the auspices of Impundu arts that she founded 2022. Along this journey, Jemima has not only grown as a person but also as a professional. She has worked on big projects with institutions and organizations such as UNICEF Rwanda, Girl Effect, Goethe Institut Kigali, Creative Action Institute and the Ministry of Youth in Rwanda. She has attended different international exhibitions such as Pink flame (Kenya,) Each for Equal (Rwanda & Tanzania.) Make the Invisible Visible (Germany.) She has also worked on various personal projects focusing on subjects that are rarely talked about or considered taboo to start conversations and bring about positive change.