The deep resonance of our vulnerability was magnified in this year’s Wiki Loves Africa prize-winning photographs, and within the collection of winning images is a clear nod to the wonders of science and medicine and the hopes it inspires.
Wiki In Africa the international organisers of the Wiki Loves Africa challenges the global photographic community each year to respond to a call for photographs of life in Africa along a specific theme. Since the collection began in January 2016, over 72,300 images have been loaded to the platform under a Creative Commons licence and have been viewed 787 million times since.
In 2021, the Wiki Loves Africa competition called for photographers to contribute images that visually interrogated the theme of Health + Wellness within the African context but looking at the positive aspects within that sector of African life.
The 2021 Wiki Loves Africa winners across the six categories hail from six different countries.
