Laura Vanessa Dembe photographed by William Kane Olwit in Kampala, Uganda

Laura Vanessa Dembe is the face of @AFR_ToTheWorld, an NFT creator fund for African artists. Her journey toward the fund began when she formed a partnership with two other artists to collectively save in gas fees to mint their work. In addition to working on the fund, she released her own NFT called the “RetroCassettes”, a collection of 195 digital cassette tape NFTs that come with a physical copy, themed by the colors of the flags of the world. She also released a second collection “Pineapple’s Day Out”. Most intriguing about her project is how the collection shares a community wallet, which the team has named “The Museum.” Laura studied commerce and majored in Accounting, but is now able to pursue NFTs full-time because of how the pandemic has affected Uganda as well as how available the internet is for young people like herself. vandemlau.eth

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