2025 Calling all Young African Creatives: Shape the Future of the Creative Industry

Are you a young African creative with ideas to transform and grow opportunities for youth in the creative sector? Do you aspire to drive meaningful change that could accelerate the sector's growth?

Caribou Digital, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, invites you to join us as an advisor for an exciting mission: to advocate for meaningful change by championing strategies that can build the sector and expand opportunities for youth. Your lived experience and expertise as a young creative is what will shape the conversations and inform strategies. The initiative is also designed to honor, celebrate, and recognize the talent and resilience of young creatives across Africa through participatory research.

This is a paid engagement with fair compensation for your time and expertise.

As a member of the Advisory Group, you and Caribou Digital will work together to:

• Shape the project by defining the scope, agenda, strategy, and overall vision of the initiative.
• Shape the research that seeks to highlight the challenges, opportunities, and success stories within the African creative sector.
• Determine the final outputs of the project, ensuring they reflect the needs and aspirations of young creatives like you.
• Advocate for policies and practices that accelerate the growth of the creative industry in Africa through the outputs produced.

• Table of Content
• About Caribou Digital
• Shape the Future of the Creative Industry
• Aim and Benefits of Shape the Future of the Creative Industry
• Requirements for Shape the Future of the Creative Industry Qualification
• Interview date, Process and Venue for Shape the Future of the Creative Industry
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About Caribou Digital

Caribou is a dynamic, world-class consultancy partnering with ambitious organizations to reimagine and deliver impact in a digital age. We design strategies, manage funds, uncover insights, and measure impact. Trusted by leading foundations, companies, and governments, we support our clients to deliver programs that mobilize and shape technology to achieve their impact goals while uncovering new pathways to positive change. Our expertise spans many technologies - earth observation, AI, digital financial services, digital identity, and digital public goods, and many broader global challenges, ... continue reading

Shape the Future of the Creative Industry

Aim and Benefits of Shape the Future of the Creative Industry

• Be heard and seen: Your voice matters. This is your opportunity to influence the direction of the creative industry and ensure that the perspectives of young African creatives are at the forefront of change.
• Collaborate and innovate: Work with like-minded creatives to co-create solutions that can drive progress and innovation in the sector.
• Be a co-author on the research output that could help shape the future of the creative sector in Africa.

Requirements for Shape the Future of the Creative Industry Qualification

If you are a dynamic individual, aged 18-35, from any of these sectors and others—visual art, music, performance, audio-visual, publications, fashion, gaming, digital content creation who:

• Is from and currently lives in any African country.
• Has created anything – music, memes, fashion, films, games, art, podcasts, name it, for at least one year.
• Can communicate, interact, and build relationships with others.
• Enjoys collaborating and co-creating.
• Is open-minded and respects diverse perspectives.
• Can commit to devoting time.
• Is able to communicate in English, we do encourage applicants from non Anglophone countries that have english level.

We highly encourage women, displaced persons, and persons with disabilities to apply.

Interview date, Process and Venue for Shape the Future of the Creative Industry

If you join us, we will work together for two months, meeting virtually at least two times every week during this period. Each session will last no more than two hours.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

For more details, visit Caribou Digital Creative webpage