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Cote d'Ivoire: Meet O'plerou Grebet, Creator of Culturally Relevant West African Emojis
This is Africa, 20 January 2020
Over the past two years, Ivorian student O'Plerou Grebet has designed over 350 emojis that celebrate African culture, history and contemporary life. He incorporated all his emojis… Read more »
The Ivorian Student Creating Culturally Relevant Emojis
After learning how to create emojis through YouTube tutorials in 2017, O'Plerou Grebet, a digital artist and art student, dedicated everyday of 2018 to creating and posting a new culturally relevant emoji. His first emoji was of Foutou, a staple Ivorian meal made from ground cassava flour and mashed plantains.
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10 October 2019
Guess the Emoji and Actual Meaning
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