Tracy Sandere is a Kilifi based artist whose work mainly focuses on issues related to Swahili cultural heritage. She expresses herself through photography, film, literature and most recently gaming through her alter ego “Rebella Afrique”. She strives to tell the stories of the Coastal region’s people, their culture and history.
In 2019 her work was exhibited at the French Embassy focusing on the first ever plastic dhow built in Lamu, the “FLIP FLOPI” that spearheaded the plastic revolution at sea. Due to her love for the ocean, she became a skipper in 2020 and spent her time sailing the East African coast, alternating her time seasonally between land and sea. She has been published by African Association of Entrepreneurs Africa based in Ghana in 2023. She also participated in the Canon Miraisha Program 2023 and was dubbed ‘the student who became a teacher’ due to not only participating as a student, but later on becoming a trainer for the 8-week program. She then went on to be a Cultural mediator and Production Assistant for the film “BOTI TATU” a participatory film produced by the Goblue Project that was nominated for the Zanzibar ìnternational Film festival under the Short Film Category. In 2024 she explored a new genre of storytelling through gaming, “UMOJA”, a groundbreaking video game exploring resistance to slavery on the Swahili Coast. The video game was launched at Pwani University in August 2025.