Costumes made and modeled by Anidan children, Lamu
MASK PRIZE 2019
On this page:
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Winners and commended, lists of names
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Calalogue of shortlisted works, video
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Shortlisted by category, galleries
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Award Ceremony in Nairobi, photographs
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Press: Citizen TV, The Star, The Star 'Gen Ci'
Winners
Nearly 2000 works were received from young people aged from 4 to 25 years living in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Malawi, South Africa and Seychelles. Winners receive prizes totalling Ksh 300,000 supported by Rivers Foundation (UK), The Nobelity Project (USA), and Mabati Roling Mills (Kenya). Special thanks to the Judges of MASK Prize 2019
'SCHOOLS' CATEGORY
WINNERS
(Each school receives Ksh 50,000 in cash and a certificate)
St. Andrew's International High School, Blantyre, Malawi,
teacher Tijana Randjelovic
Arya Girls and Boys Secondary School, Nairobi, Kenya,
teacher Miss Rahab
Anidan Art Centre, Lamu, Kenya,
leader Corrie Wingate
COMMENDED
(A certificate for each school)
Akiba School, Nairobi, Kenya,
teacher Arogo Dominic
Kiwanja Primary School-Special Unit, Nairobi, Kenya,
teacher Mrs Mwangi
Xtrem Art, Kampala, Uganda,
teacher George W. Santos Ssentongo
'UNDER 15' WINNERS
(Art materials)
Mwangi Mwangi, 14, Crossroads, mixed
Ayaan Shariff, 10, Flow, mixed
Deng Arok, 13, Lukenya Academy IGCSE, Larissa, watercolour
Hariz Kalyar, 13, Mud Bath, acrylic
Elijah Waitenen, 9, Famous, print, Greenyard Junior School, creativity teacher Esther
Talia Khavele, 11, Elephant, acrylic, COGRI (Children of God Relief Institute), creativity teacher Sr Julia Mulvihill
Zeynep Avcioglu, 15, Silhouette, acrylic, Light Academy Primary School, creativity teacher Joseph Mburu Gatonye
Lisa Ndegwa, 4, Sailing , watercolour, Studio of Mary Muringi Auliria, creativity teacher Mary Muringi Auliria
Oprah Wambui, 9, Magical Fish, mixed, Taswira Art CLub, creativity teacher Sam Kimemia
ENTERPRENERIAL IDEAS
PRIZE WINNERS
(3-month internship at Unilever and
one-week shadowing Unilever's leadership team)
John Gift, 22
Danielle Wijenje, 18
'15-25' CATEGORY
across across all art medium and entrepreneurial ideas
WINNERS
(Prizes: Cash prize of Ksh 25,000 and a certificate for each winner and a visit to Jeff Koinange to see his art collection)
Charles Waweru, 24, Inside Out, painting, mixed medium
Margaret Ngigi, 22, Caged, photograph
Linus Okok, 22, Asylum, dance/film
Kigera Njau, 21, Afro-futurism, collage
Eddy Ochieng, 26, Time and Chance, painting, oil medium
Nicole Saro, 22, Revolution, poem
COMMENDED
(Certificates)
Achai Pieng Deng, 20, Malika, photo
Alpha Odhiambo, 21, The power of As, acrylic
Bebeto Ochieng, 24, Mangbetu King, graffiti
Eva Chemng'orem, 23, Irora, pencil
Isaac Mokua, 23, Joy and Fun in Art, film
Isaac Mungai, 15, Living Trauma, mixed
John Mutahi, 24, Rhino, digital
Joseph Makau, 24, Mirror of Deceit, acrylic
Lewis Maina, 24, Wealth and Wisdom, oil
Margaret Ngigi, 22,Njoki Wakwa, dance/film
Martin Langat, 21, Identity Crisis, digital
Morris Wamae, 21, Tears, charcoal
Muchira Muraguri, 25, Beheading of Judas, acrylic
Paul Kidero, 23, Color Queen, photo
Richao Liao, 18, Identity, pencil
Selina Onyando, 22, Lunch Time in Rongai, photo
Staice Shitanda, 22, African, photo
Taabu Munyoki, 22, Huduma Namba, mixed
Walter Osugo, 22, Cry of an Urchin, poem
Warembo Wasanii Initiative, fashion Installations, mixed
Slide show of the shortlisted woks by category
'15-25' category shortlisted works
across all medium
WINNER
Danielle Wijenje, 18, ideas:
A Home for Every Mind – space for enhancing brainpower of young people to stimulate their entrepreneurship.
A CubeSat (U-class) miniature satellites to increase wireless network.
Shortlisted Enterpreneurial Ideas
MASK Prize 2019 received 60 poems by 35 poets aged 15-25. The Judges shortlisted these three:
WINNER. Nicole Saro, 22
Revolution
All this while, I've known I was something special
With skills, talent and mad potential
I heard people are getting chances
To perform in front of audiences
I perform to a mirror and lonely walls
Or to empty seats in theatres and halls
It's making me sick that I have to wait
I've been at it since '01 to date
The lines just never shrink
I'm seriously about to sink
I'm tired of listening to the same old song
Of no, no, no, no; you're not King Kong
I've been told too often of how much I suck
I've heard it forever, only now it's stuck
I write good verses with killer punchlines
But people reap in my goddamned goldmines
I get nothing except disdain
I'm pushed to the dark and I can't complain
I can live to love another day
I won't let this gift burn away
COMMENDED. Walter Osugo, 22
Cry of an Urchin
I live in the streets,
with no permanent abode,
even the temporary never last a minute.
I live in a pigsty,
that carries the urban stench.
Whose child am I?
I eat from the bins,
the refuse from your kitchen.
Often I fall ill,
but no one cares.
To whom do I belong?
Was I born of a woman?
Did I overstay in the womb,
that I may suffer for the extra gestation?
Or did I bite your nipples,
that I may pay for their repair?
Was I fathered of a man?
Where the hell are you?
Why did you waste your energies,
fathering such a brat as I?
Chris Awuor, 21
Miseducation
i wish
my mother taught me
how to cry
because now
i
have 20 years
worth of water
frozen
in my veins.
one day,
the water will expand,
arteries will explode,
and i’ll die.
'Under 15' category shortlisted works
'Schools' category prize-winners
Winning schools:
St. Andrew's International High School, Blantyre, Malawi, teacher Tijana Randjelovic
Arya Girls and Boys Secondary School, Nairobi, Kenya, teacher Miss Rahab
Anidan Art Centre, Lamu, Kenya, Corrie Wingate
Commended schools:
Akiba School, Nairobi, Kenya, teacher Arogo Dominic
Kiwanja Primary School-Special Unit, Nairobi, Kenya, teacher Mrs Mwangi
Xtrem Art, Kampala, Uganda, teacher George W. Santos Ssentongo
Anidan Center, group work, 12 y/o, Newspaper dresses, recycled material
2019 AWARD CEREMONY
17 October 2019
Michael Joseph Art Center, Nairobi
