Brand & Systems Architect · UI/UX · AI Automation · Nairobi, Kenya
You're building something that deserves attention. I'm Duke Kamanda, a Brand & Systems Architect. I turn it into an identity people can't ignore, and I build the systems that keep it running after launch. Tell me where you're stuck, and I'll show you the way through.
Corporate Identity — Pan-African Holding Co.
A master brand and seven-venture sub-brand system for the Africa Diaspora Revival Fund — an “A for Africa” monogram, a colour-coded family, and a full applications suite.
Theatre — Poster & Campaign Design — Kenya
Key art and the full promotional campaign for John Sibi-Okumu's Elements, directed by Wakio Mzenge — one profile built from many faces, saying a play about mixed-heritage identity in a single look.
Brand Identity — Cancer Support NGO — Kenya
End-to-end brand development for a cancer-support non-profit — a sprout-in-hand emblem, a healing purple-and-pink system, a full collateral suite, and website + app design.
Media — Podcast Platform — Africa
Elevating production quality, motion graphics, and SEO for a mental wellness podcast — #1 organic ranking for episode library search, 6+ live-streamed events.
Brand Identity — Business Consultancy — Kenya
End-to-end brand development for a Nairobi strategy consultancy (a Rikara Group company) — an interlocking double-C monogram, a corporate blue system, a full collateral suite, and website design.
NGO — Gender Advocacy — Kenya
Digital content, brand, and event campaigns for a Kenyan gender-advocacy movement — website, a warm coral-and-terracotta social system, and flagship events like Vivacious Vigor, over a three-year engagement.
Full-Stack Web App — Fintech / Islamic Microfinance — Kenya
A bank-grade, multi-channel social CRM unifying WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, TikTok, email, and the SalaamPay app into one inbox — designed, built, and deployed end-to-end.
Full-Stack Web App — Procurement Automation — Kenya
A full-stack procurement platform replacing an entirely paper-based process — purchase requests routed automatically through HOD, finance, and committee approval, RFQ bidding, and LPO issuance, with real-time budget control.
AI Automation — Self-Hosted — Content Operations
A self-hosted content pipeline where one approval triggers scheduled publishing across Instagram, LinkedIn, and a WordPress blog — plus a fully automated weekly performance audit.
“Your brand should do more than exist. It should command attention and move people to act. That's what I build you toward.”
Duke Kamanda — Brand & Systems Architect
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UI / UX Design
If your users drop off where the screen fights them, you're losing them for a reason you can fix. I design flows they move through without thinking, from an ATM screen to a full web platform.
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AI Automation
Repetitive work eats your team's week: chasing queues, sending the same replies. I automate it, so your people spend their hours on work only they can do.
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System Development
When off-the-shelf software won't fit how you operate, I build the product around your workflow, from database to deployment. The tool bends to you.
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Marketing & Communications
You know what you're worth. Your market doesn't yet. I build the campaigns and messaging that close the gap, from concept to execution.
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Graphic Design
If your brand blends into the crowd, it costs you customers who never learn your name. I build you an identity that makes you the one people remember.
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Film & Videography
Some things only land on screen. I tell your story in film, with three generations of the craft behind every frame.
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Motion Graphics
When a still frame can't hold the room, I put your brand in motion, from an animated logo to interface motion that carries the brand.
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Social Impact Comms
Your cause deserves better than a pity pitch. I give advocacy and social-enterprise work the editorial quality that makes people stop and act.
I'm Duke Kamanda, a Brand & Systems Architect based in Nairobi. You get both the story and the machine that keeps telling it: the brand, and the production systems that run it. I've built that for a Shariah-compliant bank and a grassroots advocacy movement alike.
The camera runs in the family. I'm a third-generation photographer — my grandfather shot film, my father shot weddings and news, and I grew up learning that a frame is an argument. That heritage shapes everything I make: every brand I build starts with what the audience will actually see.
I hold a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing from the University of Nairobi (2022), and my career has run from festival administration, through NGO digital content, into mental wellness media and Shariah-compliant financial services — always with the same conviction: design is strategy made visible.
I'm currently Head of Marketing & Communications at Salaam Microfinance Bank Kenya, leading its full-scale digital transformation — ATM interface redesign, SEO architecture, and integrated Islamic finance campaigns.
Head of Marketing & Communications
Salaam Microfinance Bank
Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
Creative Director
ThinkTube Africa — Boomerang Podcast
Film & Motion · Mental Wellness Media · Africa
Digital Content Executive
United Women's Council
NGO Communications · Gender Advocacy
Festival Administrator
Kenya International Theatre Festival Trust
Arts & Culture Festival · Kenya
Assistant Production Manager
Creativeage Brands Limited
Part-time · Nairobi
Tell me what stands in the way of what you're building. A brand, a campaign, or a tool that should already exist. That's the conversation I want with you.