Hello friends

This is a short announcement to inform you that the latest edition of Wiki Loves Africa has launched !

The 2021 theme is "Health and Wellness" (surprised ?)
and can include representations of traditional or western medical interventions or personnel, healthy eating, or exercise etc..

Contest page is here : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2021

There is a lot of info being published at the moment from the main twitter account and facebook account. Do not hesitate to follow, like, share etc. (links on the contest page)

Many country teams are involved and you are welcome to support them in whatever way you will feel most helpful and relevant ;)

WLA over the last 6 years is

• Over 64,000 images collected
• 8,120 unique submitters
• Images viewed 520 millions times altogether (Sept 2020)
• 270+ events in 23 African countries
• Submitted images viewed 41 million times each month (April 2020);
• 80%+ of competitors are newbies;

For those interested by meta topics: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2021

Florence

PS: we are looking for some volunteer jury members from ANY country to help serve on national juries to support the small teams. If interested, please contact us.
(French, English or Arabic speaking please).