Afrocuration

GET INSPIRED BY THE STORIES AND THE EXTRAORDINARY RESULTS ACHIEVED BY THIS MOVEMENT OF CREATIVE CHANGE-MAKERS

Afrocuration elevates African culture through the art of curation, one Wikipedia article at a time. Let our collective knowledge be a beacon, illuminating the richness and diversity of Africa’s heritage for the world to discover and celebrate.

Abigail Darko – Deputy Executive Director, Wikimedians of Twi Language

Afrocuration was a two-day adventure for students who learnt about a new place, new words and met new people. Because of the work they did, words and terms that speak to the realities of prejudice like “institutional racism” are now defined in their mother tongues. It was a transformative experience

Lwando Xaso – Lawyer & Author

Allow me to congratulate all those involved in this project, as it is of great importance for the promotion and development of our Emakhuwa language. With the commitment and dedication of each one of us, editing and publishing high quality articles, I refer to articles that comply with internationally accepted norms and standards that will lead us to the destination we aim to reach

Momade Alfredo – Participant

We need to leave the behaviour of seeing our languages as those of minorities or as languages that can’t make progress. We need to cultivate the behaviour that our languages have the same power that other languages have

Luciano Panela – Professor at Universidade Rovuma

From the moment I received the invitation to the latest edition of AfroCuration, I felt good. AfroCuration has changed my community and me. In a sense, we are elevating our culture. culture. Emakhuwa has gone from being known in Nampula to a global audience. Let’s hope there are other editions. It was a very productive experience

Asvato Maruha

Not all knowledge is generated in the formal setting and this is where traditional and indigenous knowledge systems come in. There’s a richness in those particular languages in Africa which have captured a lot of the traditional and indigenous knowledge. In many cases, it correlates to the creativity found on the continent.

Professor Mugendi K’Mrithaa – Industrial Designer and Researcher

Traditional knowledge systems are the foundation. Every time I learn more about History, it expands my realm of what is possible. Maybe it is linked to our History, and the fact that there’s been a lot of disruptions and loss of many of our traditional knowledge systems, that being able to revert back to them exposes a wealth of knowledge.

Nzinga Mboup – Architect and co-founder of Worofila

It is important to know yourself first before you know others. The idea of self is something which is very important to our practice as writers, curators, and artists.

Raphael Chikukwa – Director of the National gallery of Zimbabwe

To declare who we are holds a power that cannot be denied. Who we are is a search, a discovery and a testimony. It is a gift, not just for us but our progeny. It is a feeling we have for ourselves. It is not iron-clad. It is malleable and evolving, with each generation molding itself as it wishes to be seen, not for the other, but for themselves. Who we are spans the breadth of all words in all our languages both dead and alive. It is in our unresolvable tensions and our agreements. It is both fleeting and entrenched. It spans the breadth of extremes across darkness to light. And it is human. We declare who we are in honour of those who were never asked and denied the power to declare themselves.

Lwando Xaso — Constitution Hill Trust

The project is called ‘Who We Are’ because we hope that Wikipedia in the Emakhuwa language will be a hub for Emakhuwa people to learn about their culture, as well as the worlds. We are only creating the first 60 articles in Emakhuwa. The hope is that thousands of Mozambicans will take up the baton and publish many more.

Jessemusse Cacinda — co-founder of Ethale Publishing
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