WikiAfrica/Palabre is a collaborative and international project designed to africanize Wikipedia through networks, research, projects, publications, and events. WikiAfrica contributes to Wikimedia projects online and offline with texts, quotes, images, audio and video.
WikiAfrica supports access to information and the sharing and conservation of knowledge. WikiAfrica considers Wikimedia projects as an extended, international forum, capable of giving Africa a larger voice and greater visibility. “La Palabre is precious, because in the afterlife there is none.” So says a proverb from Mali, emphasizing the importance of dialogue, verbal exchange, socialization, and mediation. It is in this spirit that WikiAfrica wishes to operate, helping to expand and improve information available about Africa online.
WikiAfrica creates networks, involves users, facilitates the participation and access to Wikimedia projects, as well as providing analytical and exploratory tools and instruments, generating new content and investigations, gathering funds for scholarships, and supporting present and active resources in the territories covered by the initiative.
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At the moment WikiAfrica is mainly focussing on biographies, literature, art, magazines and African routes of migrants.
WikiAfrica Literature activates writers, critics, editors and cultural institutions to bring African literature on Wikipedia.
WikiAfrica Art activates artists, critics, curators and art institutions to bring African art on Wikipedia.
Chimurenga Library brings cultural and political African magazines on Wikipedia.
Borders brings African routes of migrants, maps and locations on Wikipedia.
Ars & Urbis International Workshop 2007 organised by Doual'art in March 2007 created new contents for Wikipedia on the cultural institutions and the artists working in and on Douala and it edited the book Douala in Translation. A view of the city and its creative transformative potentials, Episode Publishers, Rotterdam, 2007.
WikiAfrica Art has been launched in Dakar, at Kër Thiossane, Villa pour l’Art et le Multimédia in the context of AfroPixel, the first African Digital Art Festival, 1th -18th May 2008.
