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Template:Infobox comics creator Paul Kelemba (born 26 June 1962, in Nairobi), is a Kenyan self-taught comic strip artist and caricaturist. He uses Maddo as a pen-name which was inspired by 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 and Daily Nation, as an illustrator and cartoonist through the 1980s and 90s. .
Since 1992, Maddo is the author of the weekly satyrical page It's a Madd Madd World in The Standard (Kenya).[1] 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 in Italy.
His international recognition includes residencies in Japan, Estonia and Germany.[2]
Maddo is the recipient of the 2015 CNN Multi-Choice African Journalist Awards.[3][4][5] Maddo is associate producer at Buni Media Ltd, the producer of The XYZ Show that was inspired by the French programme Les Guignols.[6] He is also the chairman of Ketebul Music,[7] a pilot music production organisation in Kenya run by Tabu Osusa.