ANF Webinars
Africa No Filter presents our series of webinars that invite experts, funders and the ANF Community to unpack insights from our research and reports, and to engage in robust narrative-related conversations aimed at answering this question: how can Africans take back the pen to shift the current narrative about the continent?
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How to write about African elections
African elections are often depicted through a lens that emphasizes corruption, ethnic tension, and violence, reinforcing negative stereotypes about the continent. This narrative fails to capture the complexities and progress within African democracies.
How does global media cover Africa?
Join the Africa No Filter Presents: A conversation about how global media covers Africa webinar to unpack findings from the Global Media Index for Africa, and hear what experts have to say about the challenges and opportunities to produce news content that represents Africa better.
Africa No Filter Presents: A Conversation About Being African in the Diaspora
Join the Africa No Filter Presents: A Conversation About Being African in the Diaspora webinar on Thursday, 15 February 2024 at 16:00 GMT to unpack findings from our latest research report, Being African: How Young Africans Experience the Diaspora.
Brittle Paper Presents: The Writing Room
The Writing Room is an online learning platform offering African writers free creative writing masterclasses by leading African authors. Join Booker Prize-winning novelist Ben Okri and course instructors, Ellah Wakatama, Eghosa Imasuem, Molara Wood, and Chimeka Garricks in a conversation about all things literature.
Africa No Filter Presents: Another scramble for Africa? Unpacking narratives on Business in Africa
If you found out that the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement (AfCFTA), the world’s largest free trade area by the number of countries participating, features in under 1% of African business stories, wouldn’t you be concerned?
How to write about Africa – reframing storytelling and centering equity
How to write about Africa – reframing storytelling and centering equity unpacks ethical storytelling. It also explores how donor agencies, development organisations and storytellers can tell African stories without dehumanising life on the continent.
Who Is Telling Africa’s Story?
If you found out that one-third of all stories that appear in African media outlets about other African countries were written by western news sources, would you be concerned? We were. And that’s why Africa No Filter is starting a conversation about who is telling Africa’s story.
