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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.
This fellowship gave Henix the opportunity to examine the implementation of the two-thirds gender rule of law in Kenya. He became aware that women leaders continue to face numerous challenges while rising through positions of leadership. Henix works with a Community Radio station: Pamoja FM - the voice of Kibera (a large informal settlement in the heart of Nairobi). Finding and analysing data related to this topic has helped him tell this story while still being sensitive to the lived experience of this community. Patriarchy is still a challenge facing this society.
Fellow's data story:
Jedidah Nguyo is delighted that she took a leap of faith and applied for the Africa Data Hub fellowship and was accepted. Jedidah has had lots of eye opening experiences and interesting insights about data journalism and credible storytelling. The fellowship has taught Jedidah that data is not a monster, it can be challenging but it's not impossible to crack.
Fellow's data story:
Sodiq has enjoyed exploring the use of data as an anchor for his ADH fellowship story, and has a greater appreciation for multimedia storytelling. The experiences he had on the fellowship drove home the need for community journalism and how community journalism can improve the lived experiences of people living in Nigerian rural communities. His story has been gotten a response from the Ogun State health ministry with plans to improve health facilities in the state’s rural community,
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.
