Sunny Dolat is a Kenyan creative director and most engaged with fashion and production design. He co-founded “The Nest Collective”, a multidisciplinary Kenyan group working basically with film, fashion, music, and visual arts.
“The Nest Collective” first started as a meeting place for the young and talented artists based in Nairobi, who were inspired in the crossover between poetry, feminism, and technology.
For their “Stories of Our Lives” program the squad members travelled around Kenya to interact with over 200 Kenyans who identified as queer. The final result was a book and a feature film. The film was shown all over the world, but Kenya, where it was banned.
Most recently “The Nest Collective” published a fashion book entitled “Not African Enough”. The book discusses the rights of African creatives to step out of the traditional definition of what the world considers to be African. The gold is to challenge the existing narrative of African fashion, which is often seen is a very peculiar way.
Recently, The Nest Collective founded HEVA, Africa’s first creative business fund to courage and support the sustenance of East Africa’s creative entrepreneur.
