Call for Applications: The Green Media Accelerator Bootcamp
Call for Applications: The Green Media Accelerator Bootcamp The Green Media Accelerator is an innovative bootcamp designed to support African media startups in creating cutting-edge climate justice content. This intensive multi-day program will bring together media startups from across Africa to sharpen their skills in environmental reporting, climate justice, investigative journalism, and content creation. Participants […]
AFRICA-WIDE Virtual HACKATHON 2024
Join us for the Africa Engage 2024 Virtual Hackathon—an exciting opportunity for developers, activists, and innovators across the continent to come together and build a transformative digital solution! This groundbreaking hackathon aims to empower Africans to access, engage with, and utilize essential human rights tools and mechanisms. Over two days, participants will collaborate virtually to […]
Hub UnConference 2024: AI and Civic Engagement Focus
Zimbabwe’s premier annual gathering on digital media, civic tech, and the creative economy, Hub UnConference, is returning this year with a two-day event scheduled for September 24 and 25 at Moto Republik in Harare.
Shoko Festival announces call for artistes for 2024 edition
Shoko Festival, one of the country’s most dynamic creative sector festivals, is inviting creative individuals who wish to participate in the 2024 edition to apply for consideration.
Celebrity comedians call for TotalEnergies to be kicked out of AFCON
Johannesburg, South Africa – A punchy parody video featuring celebrity comedians was released today by Greenpeace Africa and its partner Kick Polluters Out, a movement of African creatives and activists fighting against sportswashing by Big Polluters
TotalEnergies Has no Place in African Football
The African Cup of Nations (AFCON) — Africa’s landmark football tournament — is heading into the quarter finals in Cote D’Ivoire. As promised, the tournament has celebrated the diversity of African football and cultures. The atmospheres have been electric, and fans have travelled from every corner of the continent to celebrate its most popular sport.
Climate Activists Want AFCON Title Sponsor Kicked Out Over Pollution
Various civil society organizations on the continent have teamed up to push for TotalEnergies withdrawal from the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) sponsorship. The continent-wide campaign led by Africa Climate Change activists is targeting the tournament’s main sponsor, TotalEnergies..
Africa Cup Of Nations Begins Under The Shroud Of Oil And Gas
In a few hours, the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) begins in the Ivory Coast. The biennial tournament is the continent’s largest celebration of men’s international soccer. However, the festive occasion is being undermined by concern about the tournament’s main sponsor; TotalEnergies.
WhatsApp has come in to fill the void
WhatsApp has come in to fill the void”: In Zimbabwe, the future of news is messaging. In Zimbabwe, multiple internet blackouts enforced by the government amid protests the week of January 19 brought the country’s social media sites and cities to a halt. Chatter in WhatsApp groups became eerily still in an online social landscape where almost half […]
For Tweet Mocking Mugabe, New Jersey Woman Could Face 20 Years in Prison
HARARE, Zimbabwe — A young American woman living in Zimbabwe will be tried on charges of attempting to overthrow the government of Zimbabwe with a tweet mocking President Robert Mugabe, the world’s oldest head of state. The arrest of the woman, Martha O’Donovan, 25, has raised fears that the Zimbabwean government is stepping up efforts […]
