Submission

Pitch Minority Africa

Minority Africa

Applications are taken as they come. They say: "We accept pitches on a rolling basis" No fee to apply Last checked 5 Oct

At a glance

Deadline: Applications are taken as they come. They say: "We accept pitches on a rolling basis"
Fee: No fee to apply
Who may apply: links to work you have published before
Where: reported in your own country, published online

Not a contest: a news outlet pays you if it takes your pitch. 100 to 200 US dollars for a reported multimedia story about minorities in Africa, plus up to 50 dollars towards transport, paid 15 to 30 days after publication. They take text, video and photographs, so this is work for a photographer or a video maker as much as for a writer. They say they particularly want pitches from reporters who are themselves from the communities they are reporting on.

Applications are taken as they come. They say: “We accept pitches on a rolling basis” Read it on their page

The facts

What you get: 100 to 200 US dollars per multimedia feature depending on the scope of the reporting, up to 50 US dollars of transport reimbursed, more negotiable with the editors. Paid within 15 to 30 days of publication.
Where: reported in your own country, published online
How long: one to three months from pitch to finished story
Share of the prize or equity they take: You keep the work.

Where you stand

This one is free. There is no fee to apply, and nobody should ask you for money at any point.

What they ask for

links to work you have published before
you have to be able to report on the ground, and pitches go through their online form, not by email
no kill fee, so if the story is not published you are not paid

Get ready to apply

Built only from what this listing states. Tick as you go; the ticks stay on your phone and are not sent anywhere.

The application takes real work, by our reading.

1. What to get ready

Portfolio or work samplesA few of your best pieces, with a line on what you did in each.

In their words: “an online pitch form: who you are, your background, the story idea, links to previous work, any personal connection to the story, and the multimedia formats you propose”

2. Dates

No closing date is stated.
Openings with no closing date can close once they have enough people, so sooner is safer. Our advice
On the date, the listing says: pitches are read on a rolling basis, with a reply usually within 21 days.

Download checklist (.txt) Send to WhatsApp

The download is a small text file. You can read it later without data. It also lists each condition they set, so you can tick yourself against them. WhatsApp sends the same list to you, or to somebody helping you.

No CV yet? Make a plain one from your answers. Nothing you type is kept.

Tips for applying for a submission

General advice from us, the same for every submission. It is not what this organisation says; that is above.

Read the guidelines first: length, format, language and theme.
Check who owns your work after you send it. The rules usually say.
Send it a day early. Upload pages are often slow near a deadline.

All our tips and messages to copy. Practise answering, with nothing kept. Received an offer? Check whether it is real, then read before you say yes.

How to apply

You apply on Minority Africa's own website, not here. We never send an application for anybody and we never ask you for anything to pass on. Check their page for anything not shown here.

Go to the application

How we checked this

This was opened and verified at Minority Africa's own website on 5 October 2026: it was real, still open, and open to people from African countries. If anything here is wrong, tell us.