We are excited to announce our first confirmed guest for Otakukon Anime Festival (OKAF) 2026. Wynona Mutisi comes to Otakukon Anime Festival 2026 to share her light and knowledge. In a world where not too many Zimbabwean illustrators are acknowledged internationally for their work, she has made her mark.
Wynona Mutisi is a Harare-based illustrator, layout designer and art director. Wynona has a background in fine art with a special focus on printmaking, digital art and bookbinding. She works for a pan-African newspaper called The Continent. She recently won an Award of Excellence from the Society for News Design for one of her newspaper cover illustrations.
Her practice is largely a mix of slice of life illustrative work and visual journalism using colour to convey beauty in both the mundane and thematically heavy subjects. Outside of the newspaper, Wynona’s work includes projects with global institutions and newsrooms such as Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Global Press Journal, Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre, and Tufts University. When she is not making art, Wynona enjoys writing about art and visual culture in Africa.
Come meet Wynona at OTAKUKON. If you are an aspiring illustrator or just started on your journey with illustration, you will not want to miss our talk with Wynona. As Otakukon we love being able to bring individuals who can contribute to the space and to young aspiring attendees. Listen to her talk and engage her afterwards to get notes on how to start your journey as a profesional illustrator, the tools you need and anything else. Make sure to check out our program once it is out to see what time she will be on so that you can plan accordingly.
We are happy to have her and we are sure she will offer great value to our crowd.