Shabu Mwangi was born in 1985 and began practicing art in 2003. He lives and works in Mukuru, an informal settlement in Nairobi, where he established the Wajukuu Art Project in 2013 with a deep conviction that his work could highlight the lives of the disadvantaged minorities in his community. Deeply concerned by society’s inequality and our lack of empathy for people with different social, political, ethnic and religious beliefs, his work seeks to examine human behaviour and our collective amnesia. His inspiration comes from the view that inequities and frustration deeply affect the greater society as well as the belief that actions taken during this highly sensitive political time can give individuals insight about their own identity; how they are influenced politically and how they are divided culturally and socially.