For most, the word “NFT” brings to mind the image of JPEGs being sold for ridiculous sums of money. The stunning creative potential of this technology has undeniably contributed to NFTs’ runaway popularity. The real promise of this technology is much more than glorified digital souvenirs. This article aims to...

Meet Fatima, a budding artist living in the city of Lagos, Nigeria. She produces stunning digital art that draws from her Yoruba cultural background. Sadly, her work ends up forgotten on niche websites, obscured under an unstoppable avalanche of content from around the world. She was living hand to mouth,...

Put aside any preconceived misconceptions you have around NFTs. Beyond the noise and the news about multi-million-dollar JPEGs, there’s a lot more going on that’s actually transformative—in particular, on the African continent. And it involves penguins. Not the flightless birds that live on the continent of Antarctica, but Pudgy Penguins....