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Africa No Filter’s partnership with Western Union will ensure effective and rapid money transfers to Africa’s young creative talent
Africa No Filter’s partnership with Western Union will ensure effective and rapid money transfers to Africa’s young creative talent –30th March 2021, Nairobi, KenyaAfrica No Filter (ANF) today announced a partnership with Western Union to help with the rapid and...
The British Council joins the movement to shift stereotypical narratives about Africa
Africa No Filter’s pooled funding now tops USD 5million. The funds are used for grant-making, research and advocacy campaigns that highlight narratives and their impact on the continent.
#takebackthepen: Experts say this is why African media outlets struggle to cover more African news
“Until we have much stronger and more vibrant sort of new media platforms that speak to these audiences in language and context that makes sense to them, it’s very difficult to drive a new African narrative,” said Tomiwa Aladekomo. Aladekomo is the CEO of Zikoko Media, which gets six million hits every month on their website and social media.
Who Is Telling Africa’s Story?
Who Is Telling Africa’s Story?Highlighting disturbing data we found when we analysed content from 60 African news outlets in 15 countries and surveyed 38 media editors from across the continent. The resulting report: ‘How African Media Covers Africa’ highlights the...
African Academics join forces to investigate African narratives under new fellowship program
The African fellows, who are based both on the continent and in the diaspora, will conduct research across more than 15 African countries. And while the story-telling mediums and topics they will study differ, outcomes will have the same impact: they will offer a broader picture of how Africans talk about each other, and how those from outside Africa talk about us – especially in China and the Middle East.
Who Is Telling Africa’s Story?
Join our webinar on Wednesday 17th February 2021 at 5pm SAST, 3pm GMT, 10am ET to highlight this, and other disturbing data we found when we analysed content from 60 African news outlets in 15 countries and surveyed 38 media editors from across the continent.
New US, UK funders to join African narrative collaborative
The UK’s Comic Relief and the US-based Conrad N. Hilton Foundation are the latest funders to join Africa No Filter (ANF) – a donor collaborative working to change harmful and stereotypical narratives about and within Africa. Both organisations join existing partners Ford Foundation, Bloomberg, Mellon Foundation, Luminate and Open Society Foundations to fund an ambitious program – influencing how the world sees Africa and how Africa sees itself.
