A 2016 Ashoka Re-Imagine Learning Fellow, Karima Grant is the founder and Director of\u00a0ImagiNation Afrika\u00a0and co-founder of Ker Imagination Educational Services.<\/p>\n
ImagiNation Afrika improves the development of children by collaborating with institutions that nourish youth development and building an ecosystem that allows African children to thrive in the 21st century. In 2016, Karima Grant opened\u00a0Ker ImagiNation,\u00a0dedicated to play-based learning for children aged 6 months to 12 years. To date, Ker ImagiNation has welcomed more than 15,000 children and their families and created children\u2019s exhibitions, notably for the 2018 Dak\u2019Art Biennale. In 2019, Ker Imagination received the European Museums Association\u2019s Best Children in Museums Award.\u00a0Rama and Aicha,\u00a0an animated short series produced by Ker Imagination, won the Public Choice award at the 2021 Vues D\u2019Afrique Film Festival.<\/p>\n
In 2019, Karima co-founded Ker Imagination Educational Services to support working African parents and their families. Such services include Les Playlabs, Senegal\u2019s first chain of high-quality, play-based infant and preschool programs. Karima has designed, co-created and facilitated leadership programs, workshops and classes on three continents and has written four children\u2019s picture books and contributed to a number of anthologies for young adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11395,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"members-type":[873,857],"class_list":["post-11394","biography","type-biography","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","members-type-authors","members-type-speakers"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n