Pulitzer Center  Lavwa Lenpak African content creator program 2026 for African content creators ($500 participation stipend)

Application Deadline: August 26, 2026

Applications are actually open for the 2026 Pulitzer Center Lavwa Lenpak African content creator program. Join the second cohort of Lavwa Lenpak, our program for content creators in Africa, and discover ways to use investigative journalism to interact your neighborhood and make an affect. 

This second version of the program is devoted to governance and human rights within the forestry sector, with a selected give attention to the Congo Basin.

Pulitzer Center is in search of African content creators to contribute in strengthening their standing as trusted voices inside their communities, drawing inspiration from journalism. 

By equipping content creators to raised perceive problems with public curiosity, strengthen their vital considering, and produce dependable content, Lavwa Lenpak builds a bridge between Pulitzer Center-supported journalism and audiences in Africa, reworking complicated journalistic investigations into accessible, participating digital content tailor-made for social media.

Requirements

Lavwa Lenpak is in search of 10 content creators who’re keen to study journalism-based content creation and whose viewers consumes content concerning the Congo Basin area or Africa. You can apply if:

• You create content on TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook.
• You have a longtime on-line neighborhood and an engaged viewers.
• You are occupied with public curiosity points, schooling, social justice, governance, transparency, accountability, pure assets, forest safety, or neighborhood rights.
• You are open to studying and creating content impressed by investigative or public-interest reporting.
• You are open to creating complicated topics comprehensible and fascinating for your viewers.
• You are based mostly in or create contents on the Congo Basin or Africa.
• The program welcome functions from content creators, issue-based influencers, journalist-creators, and neighborhood voices.

Benefits

• Access to Pulitzer Center-supported reporting and journalistic assets. 
• Opportunities to collaborate with journalists, in addition to customized suggestions on their content. 
• Masterclasses on disinformation and the position of trusted voices, inventive storytelling, and scriptwriting. 
• A participation stipend of $500, paid on the finish of the program upon approval of all required deliverables.
•  The alternative to contribute to a broader dialog on accountability, forest governance and human rights in Africa.

For More Information:

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