Africa No Filter Kekere Storytellers Fund 2023 for emerging African storytellers

Africa No Filter Kekere Storytellers Fund 2023: New funding opportunity for emerging African storytellers. Apply below.

When is Application Deadline: Applications are open until the end of the year, or until we’ve selected 20 storytellers for the fund.

Tell Me About Award: Are you a content creator, wordsmith, performance artist, visual artist, or journalist whose work tells African stories beyond stereotypes of poverty, conflict, disease, poor leadership and corruption?

Africa No Filter’s Kekere Storytellers Fund could support your next project.

The fund pays micro-grants to emerging storytellers who are already creating and publishing unique and compelling content that offers fresh and alternative perspectives of Africa, to show a continent that’s innovative, evolving, and creative.

The Kekere Storytellers Fund is Africa No Filter’s way of ensuring that funding — which is limited and rarely accessed by up-and-coming storytellers — reaches artists, journalists, and content creators who share our passion for telling better stories about Africa and telling stories about Africa better.

Type: Grants

Who can Apply? You must:

• Be an African based anywhere in Africa or the Diaspora.
• Be under 35 years.
• Be able to express yourself in English or French.

• Have a track record of producing ground-breaking work that challenges stereotypical narratives about your community, country, or the continent.
  
• Have at least two years of related work experience

• Have a minimum of 5000 followers across Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube
• Fall in at least one of the following categories:
  • Media/Content creator: Journalist, Blogger, Vlogger, Podcaster, Fiction & Non-Fiction Writer, Photographer
  • Artist: Poet, Musician, Spoken Word Poet, Dancer, Painter, Sculptor, Illustrator, Animator.

Ineligibility:

We will not consider:

• Applications by filmmakers. See the Last Mile Film Fund for related opportunities.
• Storytellers who do not have evidence of producing work that shifts stereotypical narratives about Africa.
• Funding to buy equipment (cameras, laptops, etc).
• Funding to host/attend an event (workshops, festivals, conferences, etc).

Which Countries are Eligible? African countries

How Many Awards? 20

What is the Benefit of Award? $500 – $2000.

How to Apply: Apply here

Visit Award Webpage for Details