COMMUNICATION
Africa!Ignite communicates positive and educational messages rooted in Africa.
We showcase and celebrate development success stories, role models and good practice from across Africa and present these in carefully designed, visually pleasing print and multimedia formats - including publications, DVDs and multi-media artworks.
Our marketing and communication consultancy and facilitation services to NGOs and other non-profit organisations includes projects such as our partnership with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) to design and implement a capacity-building communications programme for the RBF's grantees across South Africa.
iThubalethu Community Newspaper
iThubalethu offers an extensive free isiZulu rural community newspaper network which gives rural communities a voice and connects them with information, resources and opportunities in a reader-friendly format, making it an important tool for rural transformation.
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Voices of Africa - Publications
Africa!Ignite’s Voices of Africa series links directly into our vision of ‘a self-reliant Africa alight with energy and innovation.’ We believe that there is much in Africa that is worth sharing more widely across the continent and beyond to spark self-reliance, energy and innovation.
'BURNING BRIGHT – Extraordinary women of KwaZulu-Natal' is the first publication in the Voices of Africa series. A number of other publications are being developed, including a book on Leading in Africa, which will draw on research conducted in partnership with the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Leadership Centre. This publication will tell the stories of current African leaders from different contexts to inform positive transformational leadership across the continent.
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These media document the process through which 20 rural school cluster communities from all across KwaZulu-Natal and the North West Province reflected on where they had come from, took stock of how they had changed and shared their dreams for the future. Local artists then created 20 door-sized, beaded tapestries that capture the character of each community and their stories of hardship, of courage and of positive change.
The colourful publication combines text and pictures to showcase each of the tapestries, the artists who created it and the community whose stories are captured in it.
The DVD vividly portrays the making of the tapestries by the artists as well as the lives of the communities whose stories are being told. The tapestries featured in the publication and DVD are the work of 200 artists, designers and crafters and have been showcased in Pretoria’s National Cultural-history Museum, Pietermaritzburg’s Tatham Gallery and KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education’s head-offices. |
27 July 2010 Eurakha Singh of eThekwini Municipality's South Durban ABM celebrates with Lamontville crafters. 08 June 2010 Africa!Ignite is contributing to the building of a positive youth culture in the South Durban basin in partnership with eThekwini Muncipality. |
