Visual lived experience storytellers. Using the lived and living experience stories as a tool for social change and social justice.
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🟣Zambarau Profile🟣
Zambarau Profile uses visual storytelling to honor purple as a symbol of protest against femicide and gender-based violence (GBV). Named after the Swahili word for purple, this exhibition is inspired by the wave of purple profile pictures from South Africa,
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I spent 8 hours in Microsoft Word and 4 hours on my blog this past week...
#WinterABC26 effect 🔥
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The Elephant In The Room.
#Winterabc26 WEEK 2 — AFRICA & TECH
Is the algorithm our friend or another coloniser in a hoodie?
Day 6 #Winterabc2926
Africa and AI — The continent’s place in the global AI conversation
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AI arrived in Africa uninvited. Now it is in our classrooms, our feeds, and our hands.
Are we using it or are we becoming dependent on it?
New post is up. Read it here 👇
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#winterabc26 #winterabc2026 #AfricaAndAI #ChatGPT #Technology
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Catch up with WinterABC highlights. Haven't started? There is still time to join. Here @tikiawithgrace recapping week 1 of #Winterabc2026 and a preview of what is going to happen in Week 2 #afrobloggers #Winterabc26
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#Winterabc26
For the first time in the modern history of technological civilisation, Africa is moving alongside the rest of the world rather than arriving decades late to someone else’s party #Winterabc2026
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#Winterabc26 Day 1 opened with curiosity, not defensiveness, with pragmatism, not ideology, with the recognition that Africa cannot opt out of the AI revolution and therefore must opt in with intentionality and vision rather than reaction and acceptance. #Winterabc2026
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The writers showed us that the question "is AI our friend?" can be answered, "it depends on what we do with it, which means the answer is up to us, not to the algorithm." #Winterabc26
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@AfroBloggers
What happens when AI borrows your brain and never gives it back? I wrote about it for #WinterABC26. Worth a read if you are a young creative navigating this age.
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The relationship between AI and Zambian music is thriving.
Here's my response to today's prompt in #WinterABC26 challenge
@bloggerszw @BlogIndaba @BloggerWriters
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#WintterABC2026
AI will never be a threat to the African storytelling arena, and I say this with confidence that is rooted in specifics rather than sentiment, because Africans are sophisticated readers and absolute suckers for detail #Winterabc26
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Until the lion learns to create with its own AI all the tales will glorify those who control the data...
Where does all the data we put into AI go?
#winterabc26
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What bargains have we struck with AI?
The thing with bargains is that you can never sell a part of your soul, you lose all of it...
Do you know the ancient tales of what happens at cross-roads?
A Faust Tale About AI
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Day 7 #winterabc26
AI for the Creative
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What bargains have we struck with AI?
The thing with bargains is that you can never sell a part of your soul, you lose all of it...
Do you know the ancient tales of what happens at cross-roads?
A Faust Tale About AI
#winterabc26
becomingthemuse.net/2026/06/…
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