2026
PyCon Africa
Creative direction and communications for an international Python community conference.
- Role
- Communications & Design Team Lead
- Services
- Creative direction · Brand · Campaign · Communications
- Organisation
- PyCon Africa

The challenge
Context
PyCon Africa needed communications and design that could hold an international community — clear enough for a conference, human enough for a continent-wide conversation.
My role
Contribution
Communications & Design Team Lead.
PyCon Africa
How I approached it
Approach
The work sat at the intersection of brand, campaign and communications: one visual and verbal system that could introduce the event, gather the community and stay coherent across channels.
Building the visual system
Design
Direction focused on a confident, continental presence — design that could travel across speakers, partners and audiences without losing the character of the community.









From screen to reality
Execution
Campaign and communications materials were built for the channels a conference actually lives on: social, announcements, and the surfaces that carry a community toward a shared date.
Impact
4,500 → 5,080
+12.9%
LinkedIn growth
What I learned
Reflection
International community work is a design problem and a leadership problem. The system has to be clear enough that many people can carry it.
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