“Because we believe in promoting the free exchange of ideas online, we will now make all of the content on Africa Is a Country available under a Creative Commons licence.”
I first worked as a journalist when I was a student in late 1980s South Africa. Apartheid was on its last legs.
But that idea of producing media without regard for profit stayed with me. I got my chance to put this principle into action when, as a new faculty member of a midwestern US university, I started blogging in 2005. In 2009 that blog morphed into Africa Is a Country set out to document and challenge media wisdoms about Africa in North America and Western Europe from a left perspective.
Though we didn’t declare our work as open-source or Creative Commons-licenced at the start, we have, in effect, operated on that model from the beginning. Now an editor in Lahore, Pakistan or a college student in the northeast of Brazil who likes our content can translate it into their own language without asking our permission. That editor or student is free to copy and republish material from our website in any medium or format they wish.
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