{"id":2073,"date":"2017-01-13T18:09:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T18:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2025-05-14T10:32:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:32:27","slug":"10-african-women-creatives-reshaping-africas-media-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/en\/10-african-women-creatives-reshaping-africas-media-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"9 African women creatives reshaping Africa’s media narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"

From damaging and overly pessimist portrayals to questionable Africa rising narratives, the 21st century has been home to pivotal and shifting train of thoughts shaping how we viewed and talked about the continent and its contemporary diaspora.\u00a0<\/span>But where do we capture honest conversations about the lives of those whose stories have been too often told\u00a0by everyone except them?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It must be said and remembered however, that despite historical misrepresentations of our multiple African stories, we, Africans have had and keep having agency in telling our own stories.\u00a0<\/span>To depict us as voiceless and at the mercy of western representations, is to deny the agents of change that we are and have always been.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is our current 9 favorite African women creatives reshaping Africa’s media narrative!<\/span><\/p>\n

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AMY SALL<\/h2>\n

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