Movement Partners
Narrative Sovereignty in the Age of AI and Shifting Global Power
Join storytellers, activists, researchers, media practitioners, policymakers, and cultural leaders from across Afrika and the diaspora as we confront the future of Afrikan narratives in a rapidly changing world.
Movement Partners
Afrika has stories. What is often missing is ownership of the platforms, systems, resources, and institutions through which those stories are told.
Afrotellers is a Pan-Afrikan storytelling movement building the ecosystem, infrastructure, and institutional power needed for Afrikans to tell their stories on their own terms — from within and beyond the continent's borders.
What began as a gathering in Johannesburg in 2024 around one question — who gets to tell Afrika's story? — has grown into a continental movement: eleven community hubs, more than 300 members, two continental conferences, and a growing ecosystem of partners.
The Afrotellers community — Conference 2025, Our Stories. Our Voices. Our Power.
These roles are not sequential. They happen together, and each one enables the others.
Activating and strengthening storytelling movements across the continent — supporting storytellers, activists, and movement builders to develop political clarity, build cross-border solidarity, and wield storytelling as a tool of social transformation.
Mapping, connecting, and strengthening the actors that make up the Afrikan storytelling ecosystem — practitioners, organisations, researchers, funders, and institutions — so that no storyteller works in isolation.
Building the archives, learning platforms, networks, ethical standards, and financial mechanisms that allow Afrikan storytelling to sustain itself — so no generation has to rebuild from scratch what came before.
Artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules of content creation. Global power is shifting. Information warfare is intensifying. The question is no longer whether Afrika has stories to tell — but whether Afrikan storytellers have the resources, sovereignty, infrastructure, and power to tell them on their own terms.
Mombasa — a city whose geography is itself a story of contested power and Afrikan resilience
Afrotellers Community Hubs are locally rooted spaces for storytelling, dialogue, learning, creative expression, and collective action — nurturing narratives that emerge from communities themselves.
Eleven hubs anchor the movement across the continent. Each dot is a place where Afrikan storytellers are organising, documenting, and building locally.
Start a Hub in Your Country →First recited at the Afrotellers Conference 2025, the Creed is the shared declaration that holds the movement together — how we carry the work of telling Afrika's stories.
Written by Jacqueline Asiimwe, it names what an Afroteller commits to: to story Afrika in her fullness, to honour the silenced and celebrate the spoken, and to carry storytelling as both resistance and remembrance.
Read the Full Creed →I am proud to be an Afroteller, A keeper of memory, a weaver of words, A guardian of the drumbeat that refuses to die. I will tell our stories with integrity and imagination. I will honour the silenced and celebrate the spoken. Our stories are our roots. Our voices are our wings. Our power is our becoming. Our Stories. Our Voices. Our Power.
— The Afrotellers Creed · Jacqueline Asiimwe · Afrotellers 2025
Become part of the Village — a Pan-Afrikan community of storytellers, activists, researchers, and cultural workers committed to Afrikan stories told with integrity.