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Monday, March 14, 2022 –Facebook has awarded a lucky Kenyan female content creator with a whopping sh 3.4 million for creating content on Bodaboda operation in Nairobi.
Pesatoday.com reported that under their programme dubbed Future Africa: Telling Stories, Building Worlds, six finalists from Africa included Kenya’s Michele Angawa.
The $30,000 amount will help her go on with creating tragicomedy content surrounding a typical bodaboda day around Nairobi City.
A statement from Meta, a parent company of Facebook, stated that the programme is focused on harnessing and investing in the next generation of Extended Reality (XR) creators in the Continent of Africa.
All the successful creators listed will also be accorded targeted mentor-ship programmes and tickets to the XR events so as to increase their skills on social media.
“As part of the ‘Future Africa: Telling Stories, Building Worlds’ programme, each creator will be supported with funding of up to $30,000 and also participate in XR-industry events to improve their creativity and drive interest in their projects. They will also access mentorship from Electric South and Imisi3D,” partly read the statement.
It was also established that that other five creators in the list came from Mozambique, South Africa, Nigeria, Mauritius and Cameroon.
They are expected to incorporate the creative uses of music, multimedia installations, film etc into their extended reality projects.
Arts and Culture Program Lead at ANF, Jessica Hagan, noted that the organization was happy with the type of content from Africa creators.
