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#HHNBO Liberating data to tell stories

Scraping and cleaning data for informative, insightful stories.

3 min readJul 12, 2019

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#HHNBO Liberating data to tell stories

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#HHDar Optimising your website for more traffic

The Dar es Salaam March gathering covered methods to increase traffic to online platforms.

3 min readMay 7, 2019

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#HHDar Optimising your website for more traffic

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#HHNBO Investigative Journalism with BBC Africa Eye

The March meetup in Nairobi offered a hands-on OSINT training for investigative journalism.

3 min readMay 7, 2019

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#HHNBO Investigative Journalism with BBC Africa Eye

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#HHNBO A mojo studio in the palm of your hand

The February meet-up focused on free apps and easy skills for creating and sharing stories using smartphones.

3 min readMar 27, 2019

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#HHNBO A mojo studio in the palm of your hand

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Verifying content using open source tools

For the last Hacks/Hackers Lagos meetup of 2018, Code for Nigeria’s Blaise Aboh trained participants on content verification using Google…

4 min readMar 19, 2019

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Verifying content using open source tools

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#HHDar: storytelling with easy infographics

Journalists learnt how to use simple tools to create infographics for compelling stories at the January Hack/Hackers Dar es Salaam meet-up.

3 min readMar 11, 2019

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#HHDar: storytelling with easy infographics

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Exploring safe tools for election reporting in Abuja

How do journalists facilitate political discourse and serve as effective forums for public debate safely?

3 min readFeb 21, 2019

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Exploring safe tools for election reporting in Abuja

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Zero Harm for Journalist in Africa

The Hacks/Hackers Lagos January meetup equipped participating journalists with secure tools to assist with their election reporting.

3 min readFeb 21, 2019

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Zero Harm for Journalist in Africa

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Hacking Kenya’s Traffic Laws

The Kenyan Traffic Act is clear about the rights of its road users. But how many have access to these traffic laws? Hacks/Hacker’s…

4 min readFeb 20, 2019

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Hacking Kenya’s Traffic Laws

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Remote Navigation for Journalists

Hacks/Hackers Nigeria’s November 2018 community meetup was all about equipping participants with the skills to use and apply visuals and…

3 min readFeb 12, 2019

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Remote Navigation for Journalists

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Hack/Hackers Africa

Journalism x Technology. The umbrella group for African chapters of Hacks/Hackers, where civic tech pioneers play with ways to rewire the media.

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