Activating Africa

Activating Africa

Africa is a continent of 54 countries, thousands of languages, and millennia of history, science, culture, and innovation — yet for too long, online knowledge platforms have told only a fraction of that story. Wiki In Africa exists to change that.

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Wiki Loves Women

Wiki Loves Women

Wiki Loves Women activates and trains leaders who, through a series of layered activities, build the awareness and skills of participants. The annual SheSaid drive is successfully driven by Wikimedia communities around the world who add quotes from notable women to Wikiquote in over 22 languages.

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Wiki Loves Africa

Wiki Loves Africa

Since its launch in 2014, Wiki Loves Africa has grown into one of the largest annual visual competitions on the continent, inviting photographers, filmmakers, and creatives to share Africa’s everyday realities with the world.

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Open Knowledge

Open Knowledge

Wiki In Africa activates projects that are designed to ensure that African ways of knowing are valued, visible, and free for the world to access.

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From Everyday to Extraordinary: Wiki Loves Africa 2026 Is Underway

Wiki Loves Africa

From Everyday to Extraordinary: Wiki Loves Africa 2026 Is Underway

Now in its 12th year, Wiki Loves Africa continues to invite people across the continent to document and share the richness, creativity,…

Making Women in Sports Visible Online – The ISA “Tell Us About Her” Campaign is Back!

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Making Women in Sports Visible Online – The ISA “Tell Us About Her” Campaign is Back!

At Wiki Loves Women and Wiki in Africa, we believe everyone’s achievements should be seen, celebrated, and remembered, especially those of women, who are often…

Reflecting on the Journey of WikiAfrica Hour: Community Conversations and Lessons from 2025

WikiAfrica Hour

Reflecting on the Journey of WikiAfrica Hour: Community Conversations and Lessons from 2025

As she leaves Wiki In Africa to embrace new chapters in her Wikimedia and life journeys, Donia Domiaty (Program Manager & Host,…

Fante Wikimedians Join SheSaid 2025

SheSaid, Wiki Loves Women

Fante Wikimedians Join SheSaid 2025

Stories from the communities ! The Fante Wikimedians community successfully carried out its second SheSaid campaign, with a series of well-coordinated online and in-person…

Behind the Scenes of WikiAfrica Hour: My Journey as a Project Coordinator

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Behind the Scenes of WikiAfrica Hour: My Journey as a Project Coordinator

The Wiki In Africa team welcomed me warmly, guiding me step by step through the onboarding process. With time, my responsibilities grew…

WikiChallenge African Schools 2024–2025: Empowering Young Storytellers Across Africa

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WikiChallenge African Schools 2024–2025: Empowering Young Storytellers Across Africa

The seventh edition of the WikiChallenge African Schools has drawn to a triumphant close — and what a year it’s been! From…

Looking Back at ISA Tell Us About Her 2025: Women in Literature

ISA Campaign, Wiki Loves Women

Looking Back at ISA Tell Us About Her 2025: Women in Literature

Each year, the ISA Tell Us About Her campaign invites contributors from across the Wikimedia movement to enrich images of women on…

WAH Episode #49: Celebrate Africa through the lens!

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WAH Episode #49: Celebrate Africa through the lens!

This special WikiAfrica Hour episode dedicated to Wiki Loves Africa 2025 This year’s winners, jury members, and local organizers come together to…

Introducing Wiki OTO: A Campaign to Celebrate the Uniqueness of African Women.

Wiki Loves Women

Introducing Wiki OTO: A Campaign to Celebrate the Uniqueness of African Women.

African women’s stories matter, yet too often, their achievements are missing from the world’s most widely used knowledge platforms. Many remarkable contributions…

Growing Together: The Wiki Loves Women Focus Group Welcomes New Members

Wiki Loves Women

Growing Together: The Wiki Loves Women Focus Group Welcomes New Members

The Wiki Loves Women Focus Group is expanding! The Wiki Loves Women Focus Group is a pan-African community of women leaders who…

Clip Video Prize “An aerial view of a 10,000 hectares of rice farm:

Wiki Loves Africa

Clip Video Prize “An aerial view of a 10,000 hectares of rice farm:

The Clip Video Prize goes to ‘An aerial view of a 10,000 hectares of rice farm.’ by Sulaiman Yahuza, CC0, via Wikimedia…

Changing the Single Story of Africa

What does Africa look like when Africans tell their own stories? It looks like a student in Francophone Africa writing their first encyclopedia article. It looks like a female photographer documenting her community’s rites and rituals. It looks like a Wikimedian mentoring the next generation of digital contributors.

Since 2017, Wiki In Africa has been making these moments possible — activating communities across the continent to contribute to open knowledge platforms and close the gaps that have long misrepresented Africa online. From our flagship Wiki Loves Africa photography competition to our gender-equity programme Wiki Loves Women, and from our youth-focused WikiChallenge African Schools to our monthly WikiAfrica Hour community broadcasts, we are a network of people who believe that knowledge is most powerful when it belongs to everyone. Join us and help tell Africa’s story—get involved or support our mission today.

Impact of Wiki In Africa (since 2016)

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The Organisations That Support Our Work

We could not do what we do and make the impact we make on Africa’s knowledge and stories without the support and collaboration of these organisations. They are the backbone of our work. Wiki In Africa is a small team that works collaboratively with NGOs, civil society, and Wikimedia volunteer groups to bring projects to life across Africa and beyond. Below are the key funders. On this page, we detail our many project supporters, partners, and over 150 collaborating communities.