YOU can participate!
Design With Africa (DWA) is about providing an authentic African voice, and we are always looking for new and indepth content. Although we welcome diverse perspectives, DWA’s focus is on design, and our preference is for analyses that focus on design projects in specific communities or cities, rather than grand narratives about the continent. If you work, or have worked, in Africa and would are able to critically argue the relationship between design and Africa, please see the two forms of DWA contribution we have below. If of interest, contact us directly by clicking HERE
| OPINION PIECE OPTION A | COMMISIONED PIECE OPTION B | |
| POSITION | Contributor | Contract writer i.e. payment per article |
| QUALIFICATION | None required | Experience takes precedence over qualifications |
| EXPERIENCE | None required | Proven record, with portfolio of 5 articles required |
| LENGTH | Minimum 600 words | Approximately 600 to 1000 words |
| RENUMERATION | Free contribution | 2.50 ZAR* per word (30 days payment on invoice) |
| ARTICLE GOAL | Highlight a design initiative in Africa | To be discussed with DWA |
| IMAGES | Writer to provide | DWA to provide |
| INTERVIEWEES | None required | At least two required |
| PUBLISHER | Under DWA opinion piece tag | First via African newspaper, and then DWA |
| RECOGNITION | Writer name and bio sketch to be included | Writer and DWA to be included |
| COPYRIGHT | Assigned to the writer | Assigned to … XYZ Design |
| ARTICLE GUIDE | 1. What is the designers country of origin? | To be discussed with DWA |
| 2. What primary design discipline was used? | ||
| 3. Which city was the project implemented in? | ||
| 4. How was design used to benefit the community? | ||
| 5. How was the project unique to an Africa context? | ||
| 6. What failed or could have been improved in the project? |
| * Currency conversions as of 2012/03/22 |
| Algeria = 24.34 DZD, Angola = 30.67 AOA, Benin = 161.27 XOF, Botswana = 2.34 BWP, Burkina Faso = 162.90 XOF, Burundi = 420.17 BIF, Cameroon = 162.90 XAF, Canary Islands = 0.25 EUR, Cape Verde = 27.37 CVE, Chad = 162.92 XAF, Comoros = 122.19 KMF, Congo = 162.92 XAF, Côte d’Ivoire = 162.85 XOF, Djibouti = 57.63 DJF, Egypt = 1.98 EGP, Equatorial Guinea = 162.85 XAF, Eritrea = 162.83 XAF, Ethiopia = 5.69 ETB, Euro = 0.25 EUR, Gabon = 162.83 XAF, Gambia = 9.82 GMD, Ghana = 0.58 GHS, Guinea-Bissau = 162.81 XOF, Kenya = 27.11 KES, Lesotho = 2.5 RAND, Liberia = 23.91 LRD, Libya = 0.41 LYD, Madagascar = 697.79 MGA, Madeira = 0.25 EUR, Malawi = 54.00 MWK, Mali = 162.81 XOF, Mauritania = 96.30 MRO, Mauritania = 9.37 MUR, Mauritius = 9.37 MUR, Mayotte = 0.25 EURO, Melilla = 0.25 EURO, Morocco = 1.12 MAD, Mozambique = 8.97 MZN, Namibia = 2.50 NAD, Niger = 162.80 XOF, Nigeria = 51.57 NGN, Réunion = 0.25 EUR, Rwanda = 195.75 RWF, Saint Helena = 0.21 SHP, São Tomé and Príncipe = 6080.67 STD, Senegal = 162.78XOF, Seychelles = 4.56 SCR, Sierra Leone = 1,440.47 SLL, Somalia = 533.14 SOS Sudan = 0.87 SDG, Swaziland = 2.50000 SZL, Tanzania = 521.55 TZS, Togo = 162.76 XOF, Tunisia = 0.50 TND, Uganda = 811.92 UGX, Western Sahara = 2.77 MAD, Zambia = 1,733.88 ZMK, Zimbabwe = 118.66 ZWD and US Dollar = 0.13 USD |