Our Grantees
Our community of Narrative Champions consists of researchers, academics, artists, storytellers, creative hubs and media organisations that we have partnered with through our grant-making.
Kekere Storytellers Fund Champions 2023/2024
Meet the latest content creators, wordsmiths, performance artists, visual artists and journalists who have been powered with microgrants worth between $500 and $2000 to work on content that represents Africa beyond stereotypes.
Africa No Filter and Mastercard Foundation Climate Hub
Meet the journalists, vloggers, bloggers and TikTokers who will be producing alternative climate content as part of the Africa No Filter Climate Hub programme, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation.
Tony Elumelu Storytellers Fund Champions 2023/2024
The Tony Elumelu Storytellers Fund calls for applications from emerging artists, journalists and content creators including bloggers, vloggers, and podcasters whose work offers a more contemporary and authentic narrative of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs in Africa.
Last Mile Film Fund Champions
The Last Mile Film Fund provide nine African filmmakers — from South Africa, Kenya, Senegal, Rwanda and Nigeria — with grants to support post-production activities needed to take their stories to the public, including editing, visual effects, sound mixing, dubbing, marketing and distribution.
Kekere Storytellers Fund Champions 2021/2022
Meet the next generation of content creators, wordsmiths, performance artists, visual artists and journalists who have been awarded grants by the Africa No Filter Kekere Storytellers Fund. The storytellers are from Morocco, Madagascar, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Uganda, Nigeria, Guinea, Zambia, and Ghana.
Kekere Storytellers Fund Champions 2022/2023
Meet the next generation of content creators, wordsmiths, performance artists, visual artists and journalists who have been awarded grants by the Africa No Filter Kekere Storytellers Fund. The storytellers are from Morocco, Madagascar, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Uganda, Nigeria, Guinea, Zambia, and Ghana.
Future Africa: Telling Stories, Building Worlds
The Future Africa: Telling Stories, Building Worlds is a partnership between narrative-change organisation Africa No Filter (ANF) and Meta, aiming to centre African stories in future technologies. The program, launched in December 2021 as part of ANF's work of supporting storytellers, also sits at the convergence of innovation and storytelling and how XR can tell compelling African stories that are contemporary, narrative-shifting and immersive.
Narrative Change Organisations
Meet the arts, culture and media organisations that have been awarded Africa No Filter Operational Support Grants to support their work in narrative change. They're based in Africa and the Diaspora.
Narrative Change Projects
Meet the Narrative Champions ANF has partnered with to fund storytelling projects that are using art, culture and media to challenge prevailing stereotypes about Africa. These range from a podcast tour around University towns in Kenya, a writing programme to boost African authors through workshops, and a multimedia editorial series profiling young women leaders in Africa.
Narrative Change Convenings
Meet the organisations and platforms we’ve partnered with to deliver robust and timely exchanges, conversations, dialogues and debates about narratives of Africa and how these narratives are built and sustained.