African & Proud

Who We Are

African & Proud (AP) is a group of volunteer Wikimedia editors who are proud of Africa and are committed to promoting and projecting Africa, Africans, and her culture, festivals, cuisines, quotes, and various African related information to the world's largest free encyclopedia and her sister projects.

African to the World

Promoting Africa and her wide range of culture, festivals, cuisines, and diversity on Wikipedia.

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Projects

Encouraging the addition of African festivals, African Cuisine, and quotations from on Wikimedia projects.

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Collaboration

Providing an avenue for collaboration amongst Africans towards achieving the set goals.

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African & Proud

African & Proud (AP) refers to a group of volunteer Wikimedia editors proud of Africa & Africans and has now decided to promote most of the African-related content on Wikipedia and her sister project. Focus includes a variety of interests, such as African Festivals, African Cuisine, Quotes by notable Africans, African languages, African music, African religion, African arts & crafts, etc. This will be achieved through collaboration amongst various African countries to achieve the set goals, GLAMs: editing workshops, training, writing, upload contests, partnership with various organizations, and so on.

  • To promote Africa and her wide range of culture, festivals, cuisines, and diversity on Wikipedia.
  • To encourage and showcase more photos about various African Festivals on Wikimedia Commons.
  • To show how proud we are of the African diversity and culture.
  • To promote Wikibooks Cookbook by adding more content on African Cuisines
  • To provide an avenue for collaboration amongst Africans towards achieving the set goals.
  • To encourage the addition of photos about African Cuisines on Wikimedia Commons.
  • To encourage the addition of quotations from notable Africans on Wikiquote.
  • To promote African music, art, and craft on Wikipedia and her sister projects.
  • To promote and encourage the documentation of African Languages on Wikipedia.
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African & Proud Events

Projects

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WikiFestival

WikiFestival Nigeria aims at bridging the festival gap that exists on Wikipedia with a focus on Nigerian-related content.

  • Lagos, Nigeria
  • 10.00 am-3.00 pm
  • 31st July - 31st August, 2021
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Nigeria Transportation and Recreation Expedition

Improving contents relating to Nigeria's Transportation and Recreational centers on Wikivoyage and English Wikipedia

  • Lagos, Nigeria
  • 12.00 pm-4.00 pm
  • 11th December - 31th January, 2022
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Nigerian Cuisine

Bridging content gap on Nigerian locally made food as Content about Nigerian cuisine is lacking on most WMF projects.

  • Lagos, Nigeria
  • 11.00 am-4.00 pm
  • 2nd May - 2nd July, 2022
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WikiClassroom

Promoting Wikipedia and its sister's project as a reliable source of information for academic research in Nigerian High school institutions.

  • Lagos, Nigeria
  • 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  • September - October, 2022
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Art+Feminism 2022 Campaign

Joined with the Art+Feminism 2022 campaign by creating/improving articles about Nigerian women on Wikipedia.

  • Benin city, Nigeria
  • 10:00am-3:00pm
  • August 2022
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AfroCuisine

AfroCuisine is a follow-up project to Nigerian Cuisine, documenting African cuisines and further showcasing the African cuisines on WMF projects.

  • LCCI, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos-Nigeria
  • 9am
  • June 17th, 2023
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Afroyanga 1.0 Bootcamp

Physical capacity-building conference held in Nigeria, with participants from various states across the country.

  • MSquare Hotel, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos-Nigeria
  • 4 Days
  • September 14th - 18th, 2023
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Culture Connect Africa

This dynamic project encompasses various sub-projects, each designed to spotlight different facets of African heritage and creativity.

  • Online
  • See Meta Page
  • February - June, 2024
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Partners