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Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCROWD) championing and increasing awareness of the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software movements among potential editors of African Descent Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCROWD), is an initiative, seeking to increase awareness and engagement of people of African descent who partake in the Wikimedia and free knowledge and

culture crowdsourcing movements in both content and editorship. This initiative was created because certain indicators signal non-proportionate participation of people of African descent (including but not limited to self-identified Haitian, Caribbean, West Indian, African, Black-American, African-American, Black, Biracial, Counter-Racist and Afro-Latino subgroups) in the Wikimedia movement.

au Festival à La plus ancienne rencontre identitaire au Bénin Du 23 au 25 mai 2026, nous serons sur place pour cap...
05/20/2026

au Festival à

La plus ancienne rencontre identitaire au Bénin

Du 23 au 25 mai 2026, nous serons sur place pour capturer des photos du festival et les partager sur Wikimedia Commons afin de valoriser notre culture et notre patrimoine au monde entier.
Rejoignez-nous pour célébrer et documenter ensemble cette grande fête culturelle !

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at the Festival in

The oldest identity-based gathering in Benin.

From May 23 to 25, 2026, we will be on-site to capture photos of the festival and share them on Wikimedia Commons to showcase our culture and heritage to the entire world.
Join us to celebrate and document this great cultural festival together!

Join us as we celebrate Africa Day and game changing Africans all May.Lola Akinmade Åkerström is a Nigerian photographer...
05/20/2026

Join us as we celebrate Africa Day and game changing Africans all May.

Lola Akinmade Åkerström is a Nigerian photographer, speaker, travel storyteller, and an international author. She has published books in 18 languages which focuses on culture, tradition, and lifestyle.

Lola's storytelling project, ÅFRÖSWÈ̩DÉ̩, is currently in display at Photoville in Brooklyn Bridge Park from May 18 until May 30, 2026.

A friend of AfroCROWD, Lola was the Key guest speaker at AfroCROWD’s online photography event a few years ago, describing her experiences as a world renowned and award winning photographer helping new editors aiming to contribute photography to the lexicon through Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.

She is a Hasselblad Heroine and 2018 Bill Muster Travel Photographer of the Year. In January 2024 her novel, Everything is Not Enough, earned a nomination in the Outstanding Literary Work at the NAACP Awards.

More about her from the Wikimedia community:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola_Akinmade_%C3%85kerstr%C3%B6m

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Join us as we celebrate Africa Day through highlighting notables Africans.Alan Emtage is a Bajan-Canadian computer scien...
05/20/2026

Join us as we celebrate Africa Day through highlighting notables Africans.

Alan Emtage is a Bajan-Canadian computer scientist who conceived and implemented the first version of Archie, a pre-Web Internet search engine for locating material in public FTP archives. It is widely considered the world's first Internet search engine.

More about him from the Wikimedia community:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Emtage

Celebrating the life of McLeod Bethune. She was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil ...
05/19/2026

Celebrating the life of McLeod Bethune. She was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. She also founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, and proceeded to establish the Aframerican Women's Journal, which was the flagship journal of the organization.

Shortly after joining the National Youth Administration in 1935, Bethune became the first Black woman to lead a federal agency when she was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as the head of a department within the National Youth Administration.

More about her from the Wikimedia community:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_McLeod_Bethune

Wikimedia Commons

Save the date! Celebrate Mask Festival with us on July 25 & 26, 2026 as we document the festival with WikiPortraits. See...
05/18/2026

Save the date!

Celebrate Mask Festival with us on July 25 & 26, 2026 as we document the festival with WikiPortraits. See you there!

Wikimedia Foundation Wikimedia Commons

We are celebrating Africa Day all month long! Join us as we highlight notables Africans.Thomas Owusu Mensah was a Ghanai...
05/15/2026

We are celebrating Africa Day all month long! Join us as we highlight notables Africans.

Thomas Owusu Mensah was a Ghanaian-American chemical engineer and inventor who contributed to the development of fiber optic manufacturing and nanotechnology. He had 14 patents, and was inducted into the US National Academy of Inventors in 2015. In 2017, Mensah served as editor-in-chief of the textbook Nanotechnology Commercialization, published by John Wiley & Sons.

More about him from the Wikimedia community:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mensah_(engineer)

Great news in Black excellence! James, our African Youth Liaison has been named Top Eleven Eco Champions In Nigeria This...
05/08/2026

Great news in Black excellence! James, our African Youth Liaison has been named Top Eleven Eco Champions In Nigeria

This week, James was among the eleven young leaders across Nigeria who contributed their quota by solving climate related issues in Nigeria. The award was presented by SOS Children’s Villages Nigeria SOS Children's Villages Nigeria in recognition of our project he conducted with us in the Winter.

James rose to the moment and chose to equip the next generation of leaders on how to make use of digital right to close the content gap about climate on Wikipedia, the most visited encyclopedia.

During Project in 2025, James trained over 50 youth in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria. The attendees learnt how to contribute to various Wikimedia projects.

We are glad to hear the good news and proud of James and his work as AfroCROWD’s Youth Liaison!

Congratulations James!

Wikimedia Foundation Wikipedia Wikimedia Commons James Popoola

Celebrating Africans! Meet Sabastian Kimaru Sawe. He is a Kenyan long-distance runner who is the first person to run a s...
05/06/2026

Celebrating Africans!

Meet Sabastian Kimaru Sawe. He is a Kenyan long-distance runner who is the first person to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a record-eligible race, setting a world record of 1:59:30.

More about him from the Wikimedia community:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabastian_Sawe

05/06/2026

Africa Day is on May 25th. Let's celebrate Africa all month long!

For the final day of Earth Day, let's celebrate the birthday of astronaut Victor Glover, born this day, April 30, 1976.I...
04/30/2026

For the final day of Earth Day, let's celebrate the birthday of astronaut Victor Glover, born this day, April 30, 1976.

In April 2026, Glover piloted the Artemis II mission, during which he became the first person of colour to travel to the vicinity of the Moon, and one of the four humans who have travelled the farthest from Earth.

More about him from the Wikimedia community:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Glover

Celebrate Earth Day with AfroCROWD!Meet Wangarĩ Maathai, a Kenyan social, environmental, and political activist who foun...
04/22/2026

Celebrate Earth Day with AfroCROWD!

Meet Wangarĩ Maathai, a Kenyan social, environmental, and political activist who founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on planting trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights. In 2004 she became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

More about her from the Wikimedia community here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wangar%C4%A9_Maathai

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