The ANFSummit2023 is officially launched. 🌍🎊 'There is a huge disconnect between the Africa we live in and the Africa that the world sees. #AsWeAre is a celebration of who we are. We are unapologetically African.' ~ #ANF Executive Director Moky Makura #AsWeAre 🧵

#asweare!

Incredibly honoured to support Africanofilter in their work to change narratives of Africa with my research; and incredibly honoured to participate in this panel discussion in #Nairobi at their #AsWeAre summit with my collaborator and friend Natasha Kimani.

Africanofilter Vashti 🇰🇪🇹🇿🇸🇽 Moky Makura African Investigative Journalism Conference We need more of Africa. Especially at these uncertain times. We invite everybody back to Africa. We have space and the stories are great. We are the Africans we have been waiting for!

So my author copies have landed. Release date: 21st December 2023. Available from cambridgescholars.com foyles.co.uk I am grateful to all for the warm messages of support. @Pagimater Adachukwu Onwudiwe Dapo Olorunyomi

1. I recently learned that although the world's largest producer of cashews is Côte d’Ivoire, the world's largest exporter of cashews is Vietnam. Vietnam is making a fortune. Côte d’Ivoire is not. This is a story of successful globalization and failed industrialization.

via ⁦The New York Times⁩. “This is an attack on every Black woman in this country who’s put a crack in the glass ceiling,” Sharpton said…. nytimes.com/live/2024/01/0…

Character, competence, capability and do or die courage! For a moment I thought a video of me that I didn’t make had gone viral but it’s actually my Nigerian sister, Special Advisor in the Presidency Nigeria, Dr Jumoke Oduwole whose words and sentiments I would like to take as my own in the

At International Journalism Festival i met Moky Makura and the first words i said to her was, “Thank you very much for Africanofilter.”

How is the Global media covering Africa? New media Index measures how 20 of the world’s most influential and leading news providers cover Africa.The results will surprise you. africanofilter.org/our-research/g…

Moky Makura & Africanofilter in the house 💥

📚 Quotes from #AnImperfectStorm - Moky Makura Moky Makura Counting down to the launch - 08.08.2024

Just listened to a story on #Mpox2024 ‘surging across Africa’ on DW Deutsche Welle. Experts talked about the virus ‘in Africa’ whilst the report was about the DRC. Now is a good time to remind the world that we are 54 countries. Specificity is important -now more than ever.

Nigeria's crude oil production increased by 3.4% in August, reaching 1.352 million barrels per day (bpd), according to OPEC's latest report. Yet there are petrol queues🤯

“We’ve always known that there’s a cost to the persistent stereotypical media narratives about Africa. Now we’re able to put an actual figure to it,” said Moky Makura, executive director of Africa No Filter. Moky Makura

[ON AIR] Negative Stereotypes in International Media Cost Africa £4.2 Billion a Year Lerato Mbele is in conversation with Abimbola Ogundairo, Advocacy and Campaigns Lead, Africa No Filter. #POWERTalk

#StopBandAid - BBC to Stop the Release of Documentary Celebrating Band Aid - Sign the Petition! chng.it/4VYB8YsmdP via Change.org South Africa

The African Union has joined the call to replace the outdated 16th-century Mercator map which distorts Africa’s true size, with the Equal Earth projection, a map that shows the continent as it really is: vast, powerful, and central to our world. #CorrectTheMap 💬 “It might seem

A campaign, led by advocacy groups Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa, is urging organizations to adopt the 2018 Equal Earth projection, which tries to reflect the African Union countries’ true sizes reut.rs/4mEsVat