Stories From The Movement

Our stories.
Our voices. Our power.

Articles, interviews, podcasts, videos, essays, and community stories documenting social change across Afrika — told from within.

Speaker on stage at Afrotellers
Essay

Who Writes the Code That Writes Our Stories?

AI systems are trained, owned, and governed outside Afrika — yet they increasingly shape how the continent is seen. What narrative sovereignty demands of us now.

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Storytelling workshop
Hub Stories

Eleven Countries, One Question

From Lilongwe to Antananarivo, Afrotellers hubs are building local storytelling ecosystems — workshops, listening sessions, exhibitions, and community documentation.

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Audience at the 2024 conference
Essay

From Johannesburg to Mombasa

How two continental conferences turned a question — who gets to tell Afrika's story? — into a movement spanning eleven countries and counting.

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Panel conversation
Interview

The Storyteller as Movement Builder

Conversations with hub leaders on what it takes to organise storytellers — and why narrative work is movement work.

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Speaker with microphone
Podcast

The Afrotellers Podcast

Thematic seasons on narrative power, linked to the movement's conferences and curriculum — an editorial institution, not a communications channel.

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Performance on stage
Video

Performance as Argument

Highlights from the Storytelling Works Showcase — where works are presented not as decoration, but as argument.

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Community

The Knowledge Already Here

Community stories that begin from a core conviction: the most important knowledge about Afrikan communities comes from within them.

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Community members in conversation
Hub Stories

Building a Hub From a Bookshop

How hosted spaces — bookshops, universities, cultural venues — become the first home of a storytelling hub.

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Exhibition visitor
Interview

Curating for Conversation

The curators of the Afrotellers exhibitions on choosing works that challenge, illuminate, connect, and move.

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This is the beginning of the Afrotellers editorial platform. New articles, podcast episodes, and films from the movement and its hubs will be published here. Have a story the movement should tell? Write to afrotellers@gmail.com.