Meet the Founders
Captain of Curious Minds AKA Chief Executive Officer
Jacqui Thuku is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Bambaverse, a digital playground where learning gets a glow-up. With over 20 years in the teaching profession, she brings a treasure trove of classroom wisdom, creativity, and care to everything she builds.
When she’s not shaping the future of learning at Bambaverse, Jacqui teaches Year 7–13 students in the UK, turning classrooms into curiosity labs and helping young minds discover their power. Equal parts educator, strategist, and dream-builder, she leads Bambaverse with a mission to make education fun, fearless, and deeply rooted in transformative education.
She designs learner-centred systems that spark critical thinking, digital confidence, and creativity; bridging education through inclusive and tech-powered ideas. Whether she’s geeking out over edtech tools or dreaming up the next cultural sandbox, Jacqui is all about access, equity, and imagination.
If Shuri from Wakanda opened a school for young geniuses, with afro-comics in one hand and a Raspberry Pi in the other, you’d see Jacqui’s dream in motion.
Thayù is a reclusive but radiant storyteller, cultural strategist, and creative technologist with a flair for turning the impossible into play. Rooted in social impact and artistic rebellion, Thayù blends folklore with firmware, community, and creativity into bold, Afro-futuristic experiences.
Thayù has authored 16 children’s books (with enough personality to raise an army of curious minds), 3 poetry collections, 4 comics, 2 photo comics, and 2 anthologies, because one medium is never enough. Whether it’s crafting a 400-page augmented reality festival in a book, building bizarrely brilliant digital worlds, or molding clay into emotion, Thayù’s work is a passport to many dimensions.
As an AI enthusiast, they treat technology as a creative co-pilot, pushing boundaries with ethical, inclusive tools that amplify African voices. One of their most groundbreaking projects? A 400-page augmented reality festival in a book, the first of its kind. Their love affair with AI isn’t just geeky, it’s revolutionary, channeling emerging tech to amplify African voices and rewire how we learn, dream, and connect.
They founded Creatives Garage, which has supported over 15,000 creatives across Africa, and built platforms like Kalabars, Baiskeli, and Sondeka Festival to amplify cultural voices. Their projects; Femmolution, That Other Place, Blooms in the Dark, and Sondeka ALT, reimagine storytelling as resistance, play, and power.
Basically, if Sun Ra, Makmende, and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o had a brainchild raised on afrofuturism, jazz, and childhood wonder, it might look a little like Thayù.
Chief Mischief Maker AKA Chief Creative Technologist