Event:Wiki Loves Africa 2024 in Wikimedia Gombe

Wiki Loves Africa is an annual multimedia celebration of Africa. The 2024 theme "Africa Creates", celebrates the creation, manufacture, and/or production of items, objects, commodities, and products by Africans across the continent. As a theme, Africa Creates encompasses the creation of art in all forms: craft, fashion, film, dance, literature, textile design and fabrication, beverages, or street or restaurant food, using traditional methods or modern processes of manufacture.

Wiki Loves Africa 2024

It could also document the creation, manufacture, or processing of items for sale or production in factories at an industrial scale, such as food processing, beverage production, manufacture of ceramics, clothes, and household items, and industrial manufacture, for example, smelting works, industrial engineering, or glass production.

Africa Creates is interested in the process of creation rather than the final product and aims to celebrate and capture human ingenuity as it happens. The focus of the photographer, filmmaker, or audiophile should be on capturing the process of creation or manufacture, not on the final product itself. If the final product is featured, please do not make it the central focus of the image.

The highlight of winning submissions will be focused on media that depicts the process (of creation or manufacture) and not on the finished work itself.

International Prizes

Photography

• 1st Prize USD 1,000
• 2nd Prize USD 900
• 3rd Prize USD 800

Media (Video, Audio, Graphics, Photo Essays)

• Best audio prize USD 800
• WLA video prize - Narrative USD 1,000
• WLA video prize - Reportage USD 1000
• WLA video prize - Clip USD 200
• Jury Prize USD 800

How to participate

Easy steps to enter!

1. If you don't have a Wikimedia account, create a free account or log in on Wikimedia Commons.
2. Register as a participant (with your Wikimedia account) using the Register for Event by top right handside of this page above
3. Take photos related to the theme of Africa Creates
4. Ensure to convert your video from MP4 into WebM or OGV format before uploading using the portal on step six. Consult our How to Enter page for useful advice on everything relating to the competition.
5. Make sure you follow the rules of the competition (otherwise your image might not be eligible!)
6. Upload your photos using this dedicated portal – from the 1st of March to 30 April, 2024!

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WLA 2023 International Winners

2023 Theme:climate and weather

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  1st prize: Auyo village flood by Sani Maikatanga (Nigeria)
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  2nd prize: Stormy day in somalia by Mohamed Nasr (Somalia)
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  3rd Prize: Kids and the river by Mohammed Osman (Sudan)
• Best Audio: Change Immersion by Abdullahi Tanimu Abubakar (Nigeria)
• Best Video Prize: GOOD YESTERDAYS WIKI LOVES AFRICA 2023 by Green Wilfred Somoni (Nigeria)