Narrative Change Projects

Oluwaseun Babalola's work celebrates Black identity using film, television, and digital media, and two, build sustainable outlets and funding for Black media professionals. She's worked as a producer on television series such as the Emmy-nominated United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell (CNN), Africa Everywhere (The Africa Channel), Streets of Dreams (CNBC), and the feature documentaries, Trichster, Picture A Scientist (PBS, Netflix), and forthcoming Frederick Douglass In Five Speeches (HBO).

Moses Kiboneka is the passionate actor and creative writer behind Uncle Mo, a comical character created during Uganda’s Covid lockdown in 2020 “to give Africa something to laugh about”.

Cape Town is fast becoming a major global art centre. The Zeitz MOCAA is ensuring that contemporary African art takes the spotlight through an extensive portfolio of work that collects, preserves, researches and exhibits contemporary art from Africa and the diaspora.

Yasmine Fofana is a pioneer when it comes to promoting Côte d’Ivoire’s culinary scene. She is her country’s first food blogger after launching Afrofoodie in 2012 and continues creating new ways of turning food into the language she uses to change narratives about African food, including launching the first Restaurant week of Côte d’Ivoire in 2017 and currently getting ready to launch the country’s first food tour.

Big Cabal Media is building the next generation of African media brands and creating some of the most exciting content about Africa through tech and youth publications.

New Africa Nation was founded by Grammy Award-winning musician Fuse ODG (Nana Richard Abiona) and Andre Hackett.

Memunatu Magazine is a non-profit media organisation that promotes literacy, leadership, and empowerment for adolescent girls in Africa and the diaspora.

We Three Queens of Africa is a lifestyle, mentoring and empowerment YouTube and Podcast platform hosted by Achieng Butler, Micheline Ntiru and Musonda Mumba. They draw on their wealth of international and multi-dimensional experience to provide diverse multi-faceted stories by Africans.

Thando Mgqolozana is an internationally acclaimed novelist, curator, filmmaker, and researcher. His seminal novels include A Man Who is Not a Man (2021), Nursing in a New Era (2009), Hear Me Alone (2011), and Unimportance (2014). He was selected as one of the Most Influential Africans (2016), awarded the Mandela Rhodes Scholarship (2006), Canon Collins Scholarship (2018), and JIAS Writing Fellowship (2019).

Africa Podfest is driven by a clear, singular focus: Inspiring and elevating African podcasters by building a sustainable and inclusive podcasting industry across Africa. The organisation’s intention is to achieve this by simplifying podcast learning, placing a spotlight on African podcasters, and centering voices that have been in the margins, including youth, low-income communities, women, activists, LGBTQA+ people and people with disabilities.

Akosua Hanson is the creator of the thrilling and philosophical Ghanaian graphic novel series, Moongirls Live, which follows the adventures of African queer supersheroes fighting for an Africa free from corruption, patriarchy and the legacies of slavery, colonialism and neo-colonialism. She also founded Drama Queens, a grassroots youth organisation for social change.

Dr Ainehi Edoro is an Assistant Professor of Global Black Literatures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of English and Department of African Cultural Studies. She has an M.A. from Kansas University and a PhD from Duke University. Dr Edoro teaches and researches African literature and digital culture. She is working on a book titled Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Thinks. She founded Brittle Paper in 2010  when she was a PhD student of literature at Duke University.