{"id":1439,"date":"2019-08-26T12:28:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T12:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afrikavuka.org\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2025-03-26T22:49:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T22:49:33","slug":"telling-the-african-climate-movement-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afrikavuka.org\/fr\/telling-the-african-climate-movement-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Telling the African Climate Movement Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this month, I had the pleasure and privilege to travel to Gisenyi in Rwanda for<\/span> a #AfrikaVuka digital organizing and storytelling skills training.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

About 20 activists gathered from across Africa to participate in the training. We spent 4 days sharing knowledge, stories, and songs, while building trust and digital organizing skills to take the #AfrikaVuka movement to the next level.<\/span><\/p>\n\"\"\n

As discussions on the importance of climate stories unfolded, common themes crossing geographic boundaries gave insight into how stories all over Africa are being told. It became imminent that in order to grow the climate movement in Africa, communities <\/span>living at the frontlines of climate change<\/span> need to own their stories — and also challenge the way stories about Africa are told in general.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Entrenched narratives of Africa have often left the continent misunderstood. Crude descriptions of Africa, scaling from the \u2018Dark Continent\u2019 to the \u2018Emerging One\u201d ignore the complexities of Africa. Instead of trapping Africa into a single story or narrative, this <\/span>retreat became a space to talk about storytelling practices <\/span>that speak in their own voice and organizing tools that resonate with people and empower them to tell stories as they are.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\"\"\n

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Key take-aways:<\/span><\/p>\n