African Climate Stories

What African Climate Stories does

African Climate Stories is a non-profit online platform and fellowship initiative dedicated to building a community of multimedia climate storytellers across Africa. Founded in 2023 as a product under Monoversal Earth, it operates from Lagos, Nigeria, with a small team of six, and is led by Creator & Producer Nina Mbah. Its four interconnected programs are the African Climate Stories Platform (a website publishing climate narratives and Storyteller of the Month Q&As), the African Climate Stories Fellowship (a 16-week cohort program training up to 20 multimedia storytellers and climate advocates annually), the African Climate Stories Forum (a monthly online training series), and the African Climate Stories Festival (an annual showcase and awards event for fellow projects).

The platform aggregates content across documentary, photography, animation, poetry, creative writing, and other multimedia forms, and has featured storytellers from Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Algeria, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It does not develop proprietary technology products and offers no public API or SDK; the underlying delivery is a standard website and social channels (notably Twitter @ACSNewsRoom).

The business model is grant-funded non-profit: the fellowship is offered entirely free to participants, with primary funding from the Urban Movement Innovation Fund (delivered via The Social Change Nest) and operational support from partners including American Corner Ikeja, Spunky Toonz, the Creative Economy Practice at CCHub, and Griot Global Network. There is no commercial pricing model and no disclosed revenue; growth is driven by an annual fellowship application cycle, a waitlist of 50+ prospective fellows, and an expanding pan-African footprint.

Name

African Climate Stories

Legal name

African Climate Stories

Website

https://africanclimatestories.online

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

African Climate Stories is a Lagos-based non-profit platform and fellowship program that trains and showcases multimedia climate storytellers from across Africa. It runs an annual 20-fellow fellowship, a monthly online training forum, and an annual festival, funded primarily by a single grant from the Urban Movement Innovation Fund.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Climate Storytelling and Media Fellowship (Non-profit)

NAICS

Human Rights Organizations (813311)

akta.pro primary industry

Climate Adaptation & Resilience Programs (BPADALAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Environment, Climate & Sustainability Congresses (THAHAJAH), Writing Critique Groups & Peer Workshops (EDAMAMAJ)

Keywords

• Climate storytelling
• Multimedia fellowship
• Environmental advocacy
• Creative media training
• Climate narrative

Headquarters

HQ city

Lagos

HQ country

Nigeria

HQ region

Africa

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Grant Funding: The organization operates as a non-profit and is entirely grant-funded. Funding is provided by Urban Movement Innovation Fund, with support from partners including American Corner Ikeja and Spunky Toonz. The fellowship program is free for participants.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

African Climate Stories is a non-profit online platform that builds a community of multimedia climate storytellers across Africa. It runs a 16-week cohort-based fellowship for up to 20 storytellers per year, a monthly online forum for open training, and an annual festival showcasing fellows' climate story projects. The program is offered free to participants and is funded through grants.

Product overview

African Climate Stories operates as a unified online platform combining multiple interconnected offerings: the core African Climate Stories Platform serves as the main hub for multimedia climate storytellers in Africa; the African Climate Stories Fellowship is a 16-week cohort-based program training up to 20 fellows annually in climate storytelling; the African Climate Stories Forum provides monthly online training webinars to prepare potential fellows; and the African Climate Stories Festival serves as the annual showcase and graduation event. These four components work together to enable storytellers and climate activists to co-create narratives for environmental and climate change education and advocacy across Africa.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• African Climate Stories Fellowship: Cohort-based program bringing together storytellers and activists to co-create narratives that drive action for environmental and climate change solutions in Africa.
• African Climate Stories Forum
• African Climate Stories Festival

Products and services

• African Climate Stories Fellowship A cohort-based program (up to 20 fellows per cohort, 16 weeks duration) bringing together diverse multimedia storytellers and climate change advocates to co-create narratives that drive action for environmental and climate change solutions in Africa. The program is offered free to participants.
• African Climate Stories Forum A monthly online training forum on multimedia storytelling for climate action and environmental solutions, bringing experienced storytellers, artists, and multimedia professionals for webinars and training to prepare potential fellows.
• African Climate Stories Festival An annual gathering where fellows' story projects are displayed, screened, or performed to celebrate those creating narratives that move environmental solutions and climate action, featuring award recognitions for outstanding projects.
• African Climate Stories Platform An online platform creating a community of multimedia climate storytellers in Africa, enabling storytellers and climate activists to co-create stories for environmental and climate change education and advocacy, and publishing original stories, Q&As, documentaries, photography, and other content.

Quantifiable outcome

• Cohort-based program with up to 20 fellows per year completing a 16-week program
• +2 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

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Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Monoversal EarthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMonoversal Earth is the parent/organizational creator of African Climate Stories. Nina Mbah is the Creator & Producer building Monoversal's most innovative product facilitating the co-creation and sharing of environmental solutions in Africa through the African Climate Stories platform.
• The Social Change NestcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerImplementing partner that helps bring the fellowship opportunity to participants through their support and expertise in social change initiatives.
• American Corner IkejaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner providing support for the fellowship program, helping to make the opportunity available to participants.
• Spunky ToonzminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAnimation and EdTech platform creating innovative audio-visual materials for children. Founded by Katarina Gulan and Ebele Okoye (ACS Faculty). Provides support for the fellowship program.
• Creative Economy Practice at CCHubminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCreative economy practice at CCHub with mission to stimulate innovation and technology application to catalyze African Creative Economy growth. Ojoma Ochai serves as Managing Partner and ACS Faculty member.
• Griot Global NetworkminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner organization supporting the African Climate Stories Fellowship program.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Global Greengrants Fund: Funds grassroots environmental and climate action globally, including in Africa. Comparable as a funder and capacity-builder in the African climate space and a likely partner/funder candidate for ACS given similar geography and mission.
• The Ninety-Nine (African climate journalism): African-focused climate journalism network elevating underreported African climate stories. Closely comparable target geography (Africa) and mission (elevating African climate narratives), though with a journalism rather than multimedia arts focus.

Others

• CCHub (Co-Creation Hub): Nigerian innovation hub with a Creative Economy Practice (Ojoma Ochai is ACS Faculty). Already an ACS partner; comparable as a Nigerian creative-economy platform that intersects with ACS's fellowship ecosystem and could serve as a regional talent pipeline.

Direct peers

• Climate Cardinals: Youth-led non-profit mobilizing volunteers to translate climate information into many languages. Comparable as a youth-driven climate literacy organization, though focused on translation rather than original multimedia storytelling.
• Earth Echo International: Youth-focused environmental storytelling and engagement organization founded by Philippe Cousteau Jr. Comparable as a mission-driven climate storytelling and youth engagement platform with fellowship-style programs.
• African Climate Foundation: African-focused climate think-and-do tank supporting climate action through research, advocacy, and storytelling. Closely comparable as a pan-African climate advocacy and narrative-shaping organization, although ACF operates more at policy level while ACS focuses on multimedia storytelling.
• Earthrise Studio: Climate storytelling studio producing documentaries, films, and digital content to drive climate awareness. Comparable as a mission-driven climate narrative producer, though Earthrise operates at larger production scale and is US-based.
• +1.5°C: Newsletter and media platform sharing climate stories from underrepresented regions. Comparable as a climate storytelling brand with a regional/global narrative focus, although it is a single-publisher media property rather than a fellowship platform.
• Climate Tracker: Global non-profit training journalists and storytellers to cover climate stories, with a dedicated Africa network. Directly comparable as a climate journalism/storytelling training and fellowship platform, though with a stronger news/editorial lens versus ACS's multimedia creative scope.

Broad incumbents

• African Wildlife Foundation: Large pan-African conservation organization with storytelling, advocacy, and community engagement programs. Comparable as an Africa-focused environmental storytelling and advocacy organization, though with a wildlife-conservation rather than broad-climate lens and much larger institutional scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ACSNewsRoom
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/africanclimatestories

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

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Investors

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