Africa: Wikipedia Launches Contest to Celebrate Africa's Fashion

25 November 2015

Of all of the millions of subjects you can read about on Wikipedia, subjects relating to Africa have the least coverage. This is because of a number of reasons, but mostly because many people do not know that they can donate their images, videos and audio. Wikipedia needs your help to show the richness, difference and beauty of Africa through a photo competition.

Wiki Loves Africa Cultural Fashion and Adornment is a photo competition, which celebrates and shares the daily practices of people across the continent with each other and the rest of the world, via Wikimedia Commons – the free media repository.

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