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Changing Africa With Data
The Africa Data Hub’s Fellowship programmes are designed to give journalists across the continent the funding, support and opportunity to create accurate, powerful stories backed by rich datasets and engaging visualisations. Our fellowships are currently being run in Kenya and Nigeria.
fellows have been supported (or are being supported) by ADH Fellowships in Nigeria and Kenya.
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Fellows receive financial compensation in the form of a grant or stipend to cover the costs of producing a data story or stories.
Fellows receive in-depth training from a range of experts in data journalism and key subject-matter experts.
Fellows will be mentored by journalism experts throughout the programme in how to source, analyse and visualise data as well as craft the narrative.
Fellows from past and present fellowships can join the growing community of journalists on the continent working with data.
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Meet our past and present fellows. They have produced a variety of interesting data stories with support and training during the different fellowship programmes.
Ronald's experience from this fellowship has changed his perspective on journalism. He previously thought journalism was about justice and justice stories and has been surprised to find that it’s deeper than that, he realized data journalism is about telling a story through numbers, in everyday language for people concerned to derive meaning.
Fellow's data story:
The ADH fellowship experience has exposed Victoria to data visualisation, infographics, and maps in her story telling. Her experience with journalism has mostly been in television and radio broadcast, this is her first in depth community investigation story that she plans to publish using multimedia. She has enjoyed the visualisation support from the Orodata Science team as well as the focus on data as an element of the story telling. She has found the journey exciting.
Fellow's data story:
The fellowship has been a great experience for Israel, using a range of visualisation tools (e.g. infographics, maps, charts, etc). Finding data to support a story can be easy if you are familiar with data, but there can be technical challenges in incorporating that data in a story in a meaningful way; the technical support that is available on this fellowship for visual communication has been very helpful. The ADH fellowship has allowed him to pursue a story idea he had because the funding and support is made available for this.
Fellow's data story:
The Africa Data Hub funds and supports the activity of journalists who want to improve their storytelling through data analysis and visualisation skills in the following areas:
Topics range from universal healthcare policies to communicable diseases, maternal health and the causes of hunger.
Topics range from the structural barriers women and girls face to the experience of gender based violence.
Topics range from equitable economic recovery policy interventions to consumers’ experience of inflation.
Topics range from voter participation in elections to active citizenship.
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