Africa

Networks

Beginning in 2019 to coincide with the launch of the International Year of Indigenous Languages, the @DigiAfricanLang social media advocacy campaign started on X (formerly Twitter).

 

 

 

See participants from 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

Workshops and gatherings

Strengthening your language through digital activism – (virtual) South Africa, December 2021
Strengthening your language through digital activism – (virtual) Ghana & Nigeria, December 2021
Strengthening your Ghanaian languages on the Internet through digital activism – (in-person in Tamale, Ghana) – July 2024

Directory

See mapped projects from Angola, Benin, South Africa

Collaborations and partnerships

The Ghanaian Wikimedia Languages Meetup – May 2023

The Ghanaian Wikimedia Languages Meetup – July 2024

1st Annual Nigerian Languages, Data, Science and Tech Conference – July 2023

Participatory research

Raising awareness about digital security among Dagbani language activists – 

Igbo Wikimedians: Digital safety challenges for activists preserving their language through open knowledge

Sesotho students lack access to all online content, including for their own digital safety

Twi Wikimedians share their perceptions of digital safety and their practices around it

Of the hashtag #GîkûyûTwitter, or the love for Gîkûyû language

Digital safety matters…in our language: Recommendations from a Yorùbá digital activist in Nigeria

Beyond Infrastructure: digital safety needs for an isiZulu speaking township school in Johannesburg

 

Knowledge sharing

Exploring the intersection of African languages and digital rights – Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum, April 2021

CIPESA

Digital storytelling