LAGOS, NIGERIA – June 2025 – African Women in Media (AWiM), in collaboration with the African Union (AU) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), proudly announces the completion of 25 multimedia investigative reports under the Move Africa 2025 project, an ambitious journalism initiative spotlighting the gendered dimensions of intra-African migration and free movement.
Move Africa 2025 repositions migration reporting away from trauma and towards stories of innovation, trade, and cultural exchange told through the lived experiences of African women. These stories span regions from Congo to Kenya, Malawi to Zambia, Nigeria to Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal to Morocco, Madagascar and beyond, weaving a vivid, deeply human portrait of the opportunities and challenges within the African continent’s migration landscape.
Each commissioned report is a long-form investigative feature presented in a minimum of three multimedia formats, including written articles, documentaries, photojournalism, podcasts, infographics, and social media storytelling, making this one of the most expansive journalistic endeavours on migration and gender in Africa to date.
“Move Africa 2025 proves that intra-African migration is an issue of policy and a story of people,” said Oluwatoyin Adeoye, Co-Managing Editor of AWiM News.
“By following the journeys of market women, nurses, creatives, climate innovators, and entrepreneurs, our fellows uncovered powerful stories of agency and crossborder kinship that are often missing from African migration reporting.”
“Migration within Africa is often reduced to the language of crisis, yet the real stories are far more nuanced, dynamic, and urgent,” said Lolade Alaka, Co-Managing Editor. “Move Africa 2025 flips the script by centering women as not just migrants, but economic drivers, cultural connectors, and policy influencers.”
The fellowship brought together 25 journalists with 5 to 15 years of experience from across Africa, supported with editorial guidance, mentorship, and rigorous peer review. Partnering with fellow Move Africa grantee, Barazalab, the journalists also took a one-month Data Foundations Course comprising live webinar sessions and self-paced classes to advance their expertise in sourcing and presenting useful data.
The result is a high-impact portfolio of underreported, gender-aware narratives that interrogate everything from cross-border health access in Malawi and Kenya, to fashion trade between Zimbabwe and Eswatini, to how migrant women from Uganda are revitalising rice farming in Kenya’s West Ahero region.
“Too often, migration stories are told from a distance by people outside our continent, speaking over African women instead of to or with them,” said Dr. Yemisi Akinbobola, AWiM Co-founder. “We launched Move Africa 2025 to change that. These stories are our stories, reported by African women journalists who know the questions to ask and the truths that deserve to be told.”
The AU’s Agenda 2063 identifies free movement as a cornerstone of African development and regional integration. Through this partnership, Move Africa 2025 aligns with these aspirations while making visible the everyday impact of migration frameworks, both their failures and their triumphs, on women and marginalised communities.
“Our vision at AWiM has always been to transform media narratives by and about African women,” added Bamidele Ogunleye, AWiM Co-founder. “This project brings that vision to life. These stories not only inform—they provoke, they connect, and they inspire. They challenge media houses, policymakers, and global audiences to expand their understanding of African migration beyond the crisis frame.”
Move Africa 2025 is now open for syndication. Editors, platforms, and news organisations are invited to review and publish these compelling stories. An editorial catalogue of the 25 features, including titles, summaries, countries of focus, and available formats, is available upon request. Publishing begins on confirmed partner platforms, including Al Jazeera, Minority Africa, and Accra Times, in June 2025.
Courtesy of African Women in Media
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