Soccer fever: Zazzle is selling t-shirts to benefit IC

In 7 days, the whole world will be watching South Africa as it hosts the world’s most prominent soccer tournament.

In celebration of the African continent hosting the tournament for the first time ever,  EDUN LIVE, Zazzle, and Invisible Children teamed up. Check out these sweet t-shirts.

EDUN LIVE (founded by Ali Hewson and Bono) makes 100% organic cotton t-shirts. Zazzle prints t-shirts. And Invisible Children runs sustainable programs in Africa. It’s a beautiful partnership, if we may say so.

From now until July 31st, every shirt purchased will send 10% to IC and 10% to the African artist. If you purchase from this link, IC will get an additional 15% (25% total).

So buy a shirt, celebrate soccer, and rest easy in knowing exactly where your shirt came from and where its proceeds are going.

There are tons of shirts to choose from, each designed by one of the following African designers.

From Zazzle:

Zetuzakale Productions, a group of East African designers whose inception evolves a dream of design and creative perceptions from African themes. Zetu-za-kale is derived from Swahili words that mean “ours from the past” and it is from the past that we draw our inspiration.

Bonk is a Kenyan clothing company that designs and makes tees and bags for the coolest Nairobi crowds. All designs are sketched-up, colored with funktitude and produced in Kenya by a sizzled ensemble of Kenyans: Ashi Kariuki, Aika-Grace Temu, and Fady Rostom.

Jamburi Wear founder and designer Kimathi was raised in 1980s Nairobi, Kenya. He credits his Mum for piquing his sense of style, Leaders from elsewhere across cultures and disciplines also count as inspirations Fashion designers Ralph Lauren and Nigo (Bathing Ape), visual artist Yinka Shinobare, business maverick Richard Branson and perhaps most profoundly, Nigerian afro beat pioneer Fela Anikulapo Kuti. ”Fela, to me was a style icon,” muses Kimathi, “and he is probably our biggest icon. He was Africa cool before it was even cool to be African.”

G1 Media is a robust, design company based in Uganda with a unique perspective covering design, creativity, innovation, and consumer psychology. G1 Media believes effective design is somewhat like a composition written for a symphony orchestra, in that it requires several instruments working symbiotically in order to achieve the desired result.

David Ssengendo is a fine Ugandan artist and graphic designer with a background in painting, printmaking, and illustration. He has shown his work in the All Artists Exhibition at the Nomo Gallery in Kampala and has done illustration for Macmillan Uganda.

Paul Douglas Kihiko is a graffiti artist and designer who is currently working as an artist coordinator with the British Council in Kenya. In addition to doing commissioned artwork for various organizations in Nairobi, he has also done freelance graffiti and design for a wide range of clientele.