Masterclasses

2024 Independent Podcast of the Year winners, Chinny Ukata and Astrid Madimba of “It’s a Continent” podcast bring their expertise in broadcasting in a session focused on how to achieve longevity and stay fresh on the microphone.

Are you interested in photojournalism, whether as a passion or a career path? Don’t miss this interactive two-hour masterclass with Luis Tato, Chief Photographer and Photo Coordinator for East Africa and the Indian Ocean at Agence France-Presse.

Step into a hands-on zine-making adventure where scissors are sacred, glue is bold, and the mess is half the magic. This isn’t just a workshop, it’s a creative playground run by Ethiopian artist, Tizzita Teffera where you’ll cut, paste, layer, scribble, question, and collage your way into self-expression.

Learn where to look within to re-language personal experiences and harness joy, pain and despair at world events into poetry with Momtaza Mehri.

A creative writing session with Ayanna Lloyd Banwo on how to infuse your writing with specificity drawn from lived experience interwoven with research and imagination.

This is a workshop offering digital teaching tools run by Ukombozi Library, a Kenyan archive of progressive media. The session will be based on Africa is a Country’s “Revolutionary Papers”, a year long series on the archival remnants of African and black diaspora anti-colonial movement materials to retrieve a politics and pedagogy that challenge the contemporary cooptation of radical histories.