Africa No Filter

Mobile journalists can enter for the Visual Editors’ Mobile Journalism Awards. Benefits: 👉🏾$1,000. 👉🏾A trip to MOJO Awards in Italy. Deadline: 14 January. 📝https://www.visualeditors.com/ Are you a professional photographer? Submit your photo series to the Sony World Photography Awards. Benefits: 👉🏾 $25,000. 👉🏾 Solo display at London exhibition. Deadline: 10 January. 📝https://www.worldphoto.org/sony-world-photography-awards/professional Journalists are welcome to enter for the 2025 Southern African Development Community Media Awards competition. Benefits: 👉🏾 $2,500 first prize. 👉🏾 $1,000 for runners-up. Deadline: 28 February. 📝https://www.sadc.int/sites/default/files/2024-10/Rules%20of%20Competition%20-ENGLISH.pdf Emerging artists can apply for the Prince Claus Fund Seed award. Benefits: 👉🏾 €5,000 Grant. Deadline: 21 January. 📝https://princeclausfund.nl/awards-and-programmes/seed-award/2025-call-for-applications?utm_source=Prince+Claus+Fund+Newsletter+Masterlist&utm_campaign=e0168ec5fd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_12_11_09_32&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-e0168ec5fd-111699618&mc_cid=e0168ec5fd&mc_eid=ed4ffcbc95 Young journalists and photojournalists who understand French can apply for the GEO magazine grant. Benefits: 👉🏾 €5,000. Deadline: 17 January. 📝https://www.prismamedia.com/communiques-presse/la-bourse-geo-du-jeune-reporter-2025/

Wishing you all a happy holiday season.

Here is our weekly roundup of @bird_storyagency News. 📌 E-Visas are fostering Africa’s vision of free movement and borderless trade. E-visas are breaking down travel barriers, allowing more seamless travel across different countries on the continent. Read full story here: https://www.financialfortunemedia.com/how-e-visas-are-advancing-africas-vision-of-free-movement-and-borderless-trade/ 📌 Nancy Chiuri is transforming women’s lives through fitness. Called Mama Fitness Kenya, Nancy’s initiative has sought to inspire women to embrace wellness no matter their circumstances, showing them that transformation starts right where they are, with what they have. Read full story here: https://www.bellanaija.com/2024/12/nancy-chiuri-motherhood-fitness-kenya/ 📌 Chris steps up as actor, director and producer for his new movie “Nine”. According to Chris, “NINE” marks a bold new chapter in his career. Over the years, he has honed his skills, diversified his talents, and built a career that bridges the worlds of acting, directing, and producing. Read full story here: https://mingooland.com/2024/11/chris-attoh-on-nine-his-creative-renaissance-and-the-power-of-storytelling 📌 Thato Gabaitse is turning climate crisis into an opportunity for women.”Girl’s girl”, Thato Gabaitse explores the overlaps of gender violence and climate change, hoping to turn the climate crisis into an opportunity for women. Read full story here: https://www.financialfortunemedia.com/thato-gabaitse-confronts-the-heat-on-women-in-a-warming-planet/

Find out how Africa is likely to be loosing $4.2 billion annually in interest payments, primarily due to the stereotypical narratives that dominate global media. @africanofilter Advocacy Lead, Abimbola Ogundario, was a guest on @radiofrance ’s ‘Spotlight on Africa’ podcast to discuss this. Listen to the discussion here: https://www.rfi.fr/en/podcasts/spotlight-africa/ You can download ANF’s report, The Cost of Media Stereotypes to Africa: The Relationship Between Media, Investment and Economic Development, here: https://resources.africapractice.com/the-cost-of-stereotypes-to-africa

Find out how real-time analytics is changing journalism, apply for the Polio Press Fellowship, and read how two brothers in Zimbabwe ditched their suits and ties for agriculture. In our newsletter: https://africanofilter.org/community.

How can arts shape your understanding of history and literature? Laboratoire Kontempo’s ‘Kokende Liboso Eza Kokoma Te’, is a showcase of visual expressions that delve into the heart of Kinshasa. The live digital screening brings together different forms of visual arts, poetry, proverbs and idioms. It is a dialogue created between literary practices, performance and exhibition. From January 13 - February 7, 2025 at different locations in Kinshasa.

This week’s hot opportunities. Experienced journalists interested in artificial intelligence can apply for the Tarbell Grants and report on AI. Benefits: 👉🏾 Up to $15, 000 in grants. Deadline: 20 December https://www.tarbellfellowship.org/grants Calling newsroom and freelance journalists, photojournalists and documentary filmmakers to apply for the Pulitzer Center “Underreported African Stories” grant. Benefits: 👉🏾 Publishing across news outlets. 👉🏾 Support with educational materials & funding. Deadline: rolling. https://pulitzercenter.org/grants-fellowships/opportunities-journalists/underreported-stories-africa High school, college and graduate student writers can participate in the Ayn Rand Institute Atlas Shrugged Essay Contest 2024. Benefits: 👉🏾 $25,000 annual grand prize. Deadline: 27 December. 📝https://aynrand.org/students/essay-contests/atlas-shrugged/ Podcasters are encouraged to apply for the Micro-Grants for Podcasters Programme. Benefits: 👉🏾 £1, 000. 👉🏾 Production support. Deadline: 3 January. https://contentisqueen.org/micro-grants-for-podcasters-programme-2024/ Filmmakers can submit their films for The African Cinema Festival - Lausanne. Benefits: 👉🏾 Festival screening. Deadline: 15 February https://www.cine-afrique.ch/inscrire-film-submission-fr19462.html

Your weekly round up of Bird story Agency News. 📌Rising Quality of made-in-Africa goods boosts intra-continental trade: African businesses increasingly prefer to trade across the continent’s borders over out-of-the-continent markets like Asia, the US, and Europe, due to the rising quality of made-in-Africa goods, lower market prices, and accessibility. Read full story here:https://mg.co.za/africa/2024-11-16-african-businesses-favour-intra-continental-trade-over-global-markets/ 📌 Women lead Africa creator’s economy, a major boom over the next five years. African women now lead the continent’s creator economy, with forecasts predicting a major boom over the next five years. Read full story here: https://www.financialfortunemedia.com/with-a-more-than-50-percent-market-share-women-lead-the-africa-creator-economy/ 📌 Africa pushes for a $1 trillion climate financing deal. At COP29, Africa is pushing for US$1 trillion in annual climate financing, with built-in shields against U.S. policy swings. Read full story here: https://primeprogressng.com/news/africa-calls-for-1-trillion-climate-fund-and-safeguards-against-us-policy-shifts-at-cop29/ 📌 South African University lights a path for media reform in Africa. South Africa’s Rhodes University recently unveiled the Makhanda Declaration, a new commitment to strengthen journalism as a public good in South Africa and beyond. Read full story here: https://www.independent.co.ug/the-makhanda-declaration-lights-a-path-for-media-reform-in-africa/ 📌Hope for African women entrepreneurs battling to unlock funding. Africa has the highest proportion of women entrepreneurs globally, but they face significant challenges securing funding for their ventures. Read full story here: https://www.financialfortunemedia.com/hope-for-african-women-entrepreneurs-battling-to-unlock-funding/#

You can still register to join Africa No Filter Academy Presents: Take Your Photography to The Next Level withYagazie Emezi’ fireside chat to find out how the self-taught photographer built her illustrious career. Sign up here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HBpF17UATe6lOIIAZ5THSA

Meet Nigerian award-winning investigative journalist Ndume Green, who is traveling through the border regions of Nigeria, Benin, Togo, and Ghana to investigate the potential of a borderless continent. #MoveAfrica #FreeMovement #PositiveMigration #ANFNarrativeChampion

Dillion S. Phiri is a Zimbabwean-Malawian creative based in Johannesburg. He’s hosting a 10-episode podcast exploring the potential of dream of African passport, free visa and creativity across Africa. #MoveAfrica #FreeMovement #PositiveMigration #ANFNarrativeChampion

Meet Abdulsalam Hamza Ozavogu, a documentary photographer and filmmaker who will be capturing the journey of a Kenyan coffee farmer pioneering coffee cultivation in Nigeria's Jos Plateau. The story will culminate in an exhibition in Abuja. #MoveAfrica #FreeMovement #PositiveMigration #ANFNarrativeChampion