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Moky Makura
7 quotes
“People didn’t understand that I wanted to tell the story because I thought it was important to tell the stories—because back then, we as Africans, we were not necessarily telling our own story. I realized that the only way to get people to see things differently is not to tell them the facts and give you the data—that, oh, 30% of Africans are middle class. Nobody cares. But show me somebody who is middle class, show me their life. That’s what storytelling to me is—it’s show and tell.”
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“There are a lot of people doing this work already. There are a lot of people who care passionately about the African narrative that are trying to tell stories. So the first thing that I was very clear about was that we didn’t want to come in and compete. We are blessed with funding. We are one of the few organizations that have got funds to actually do this work. Um, so the idea was how do we use that to empower the network of people who are trying to do it.”
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“The stereotypical narrative says that we lack agency, that somehow everything that happens to Africa is worse than anywhere else. And yes, in the case of climate, we will feel the impact here. But what is missing from this narrative are the stories of the Africans working on climate initiatives. There’s a lot happening on the continent that’s good, and we’ve got to find and highlight those stories to shift that perception that Africans lack the agency to make the change that is needed.”
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“The more women speak out, the more others are inspired. If you are a woman in a leadership role in your community or organization, do share your expert voice. Women have traditionally been victims in a lot of storytelling, but that is changing – and more still needs to be done.”
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“I think it’s an absolute privilege to be able to lead and grow an organization like this. This is a very personal and … and passion project for me. What’s been exciting in what we’re doing is that Africa No Filter was set up—and our vision is very clear—it’s a world where the stories about Africa are not the sort of stereotypical single story that Hilary talked about. So that’s a very clear vision. But the mission—how do we go about doing that? And we thought, well, let’s inject some research into it, so that (a) we know what we’re talking about and that it becomes something just a little bit more, kind of, I guess, serious. Because the work we are doing is serious. It does have impact.”
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“We are essentially a grant maker. So we do grant making to media and to storytellers in the arts and culture sector. So we’re very specific. And, almost every day, I tell the team that we don’t do grant making to storytellers and artists because we like them—we like them, too—but we do that because we want them to tell a particular type of story that’s going to ultimately shift the stereotypical narratives. And we do, um, operational grants to organizations that are already doing this. And then the third pillar, which is my personal favorite, is disruption. That is where we see Africa No Filter as a watchdog for narrative change. And we’ve got two big, sort of special projects under there. One of them is, um, Bird. It’s a pilot program, and it’s essentially a story agency for Africa. And the reason why we launched it—because it came out of research we did on how African media covers Africa, where we found out that over 80% of the stories that African outlets carried about other African countries was hard news.”
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“So one of the challenges for us was how do we get money out to them quite quickly. And we did a partnership with Western Union, which is obviously a money platform that enables us to get grants—quite small amounts—out, quite quickly, to the storytellers we want to fund. It’s called the Kekere Storytellers Fund, and we give out grants of between $500 and $2,000. The idea is that—you know what, if we are a PanAfrican organization, we need to be more deliberate about spreading our grants. Because out of all of the 54 countries in Africa, we’ve only made grants to 13—only 13—and the bulk of them have gone to Kenya.”
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