Narrative Change Organisations

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ArtThrob is South Africa’s leading contemporary visual arts publication, reporting on the national arts scene and the involvement of South African artists in the international art world. ArtThrob has two missions:

Changing Narratives Africa is committed to shifting narratives about Africa by celebrating the continent's contributions to the global food ecosystem, showcasing innovations, and cooking methods, amplifying and scaling proudly African food and beverage brands, and ensuring that more people globally experience the diversity and richness of Africa's gastronomic heritage and exciting future.

Visual Aided Stories (VAS) is a youth-led enterprise of creatives, entrepreneurs and civic innovators using art and storytelling as tools for social change.

Journalists For Justice is a not-for-profit foundation working to advance improved African journalistic capacity for social justice causes and public accountability through training and effective online platforms as well as social media engagement.

Nasro Abdirizak Ahmed founded Women in Media Initiative Somalia in 2017 to provide networking and capacity building opportunities for Somali women in media and highlight the socio-economic challenges facing women, children and vulnerable groups through media and communication.

Sowt is a digital audio network based in the Middle East and North Africa. They’re on a mission to tell more stories that connect the rest of the Africa to North Africa; a region that’s still disconnected from the continent.

Vumicentral is a multimedia content platform that provides African cinema, television, music, mobile video game, and entertainment news to global audiences. It was founded by Wilfred Kiumi of the Africa Digital Media Group. Vumicentral’s Organisational Support Grant will be used to keep building the platform and license content from across Africa.

Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA) Tamale is an artist-run exhibition space, research hub, cultural repository and artists’ residency based in Tamale, Ghana.

AYA Academy was by Victoria Cooke and Carina Kanbi to address the lack of women in the creative industries in Ghana and West Africa through education, empowerment, and economic development.

The Republic provides in-depth coverage of underreported stories and issues affecting Nigerians and Africans at large. It has been recognised by Al Jazeera, Quartz and Reuters for offering serious journalism from an African worldview. Based in Lagos, Nigeria, The Republic works with more than 100 contributors from Nigeria, Africa and the diaspora.

Creatives Garage is an arts collective and agency that was founded in 2013 with the aim of bringing together Kenya’s creative and artistic community. Today, the agency has a community of 13,000 (and growing) creatives that they connect to work and business opportunities. It was founded by Liz Kilili.

African Arguments is a pan-African platform for news, investigation and opinion. The platform seeks to analyse issues facing the continent, investigate the stories that matter, and amplify a diversity of voices. While big news organisations break the news, African Arguments breaks down the news.