# Maddo

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{{Short description|Kenyan comic strip artist and caricaturist}}
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| image         = Paul Kelemba, alias MADDO.jpg
| alt           = Maddo in Nairobi, in April 2018
| caption       = Maddo in Nairobi, in April 2018
| birth_name    = Paul Kelemba
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1962|6|25|df=y}}
| birth_place   = [Nairobi](/source/Nairobi), [Kenya](/source/Kenya)
| death_date    = 
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| nationality   = Kenyan
| alias         = Maddo
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| cartoonist    = y
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| signature     =
| signature_alt = signature of Maddo
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'''Paul Kelemba''' (born 26 June 1962, in Nairobi), is a Kenyan self-taught  [comic strip artist](/source/Cartoonist) and [caricaturist](/source/Caricature).
He uses '''Maddo''' as a pen-name which was inspired by [Mad Magazine](/source/Mad_Magazine) of New-York.

==Career==
After completing his education, Paul Kelemba started off at a local advertising agency in Mombasa and later worked for various Kenyan magazines, including  [Coastweek](/source/Coastweek) and [Daily Nation](/source/Daily_Nation), as an illustrator and cartoonist through the 1980s and 90s.
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Since 1992, Maddo is the author of the weekly satyrical page ''It's a Madd Madd World'' in [The Standard (Kenya)](/source/The_Standard_(Kenya)).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bunimedia.com/portfolio/its-a-madd-madd-world/|title=It's a Madd Madd World101|publisher=Bunimedia|accessdate=2018-05-02|archive-date=2018-05-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180503041642/http://bunimedia.com/portfolio/its-a-madd-madd-world/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2009, he compiled his ''It's a Madd Madd World'' features into three volumes during a one-month residency at the Rockefeller Foundation [Bellagio Center](/source/Bellagio_Center) in Italy.

His international recognition includes residencies in Japan, Estonia and Germany.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mkenyaujerumani.de/2016/09/04/ink-pixels-exhibition-on-kenyan-comics-in-bremen-featuring-kenyan-cartoonist-maddo/|title=INK & PIXELS: Exhibition on Kenyan Comics in Bremen Featuring Kenyan Cartoonist, Maddo|date=4 September 2016 }}</ref>

Maddo is the recipient of the 2015 CNN Multi-Choice African Journalist Awards.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://africa.cnnjournalistaward.com/en/finalists/2015/|title=2015 Winners and Finalists|publisher=CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards|accessdate=2018-05-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621231310/https://africa.cnnjournalistaward.com/en/finalists/2015/|archive-date=2018-06-21|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dstv.com/en-ke/news/meet-paul-kelemba-alias-maddo-20150928|title=Madd World with Paul Kelemba|last=Owoko|first=Anyiko|date=2015-10-06|publisher=DSTV}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000179259/standard-group-cartoonist-paul-kelemba-wins-cnn-multichoice-african-journalist-of-the-year-award|title=Standard Group cartoonist Paul Kelemba wins CNN MultiChoice African journalist of the year award|last=Ohito|first=David|date=2015-10-10|publisher=Standard Digital}}</ref>
Maddo is associate producer at Buni Media Ltd, the producer of [The XYZ Show](/source/The_XYZ_Show) that was inspired by the French programme [Les Guignols](/source/Les_Guignols).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://itsamaddworld.sasahivi.com/about-me/about-maddo.html|title=About Maddo|website=Its a Madd Madd World!!!|access-date=2018-05-02|archive-date=2018-09-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180924190058/http://itsamaddworld.sasahivi.com/about-me/about-maddo.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> He is also the chairman of Ketebul Music,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ketebulmusic.org/about-us/|title = About Us » Ketebul Music}}</ref> a pilot music production organisation in Kenya run by [Tabu Osusa](/source/Tabu_Osusa).

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Category:1962 births
Category:Living people
Category:Artists from Nairobi
Category:Kenyan cartoonists
Category:Kenyan journalists

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