FAQ

What is makelinks.africa?

makelinks.africa is a platform that aims to provide reliable, certified information about creative communities in the continent, first and foremost. It makes available interactive tools for professionalization of the sector, allowing for creative agents to connect and collaborate, allowing for job-creation and for creatives industries practicants to earn a living.

Purpose - Why it exists.

We believe that the creative industries suffer from extreme fragmentation (little interconnectivity); a lack of overall credibility (we provide certification and professionalization tools); little to no structured institutional or governmental support (we aim to provide insights and establish…).

Makelinks.africa strives to
Inclusividade/ Diversidade
Local > Global

How can I benefit from makelinks.africa?

Through the main platform, makelinks allows you to showcase your work (personal profile management), using your own editable micro-website; to collaborate at a global scale, through our crafted crowdsourcing tool; to have access to funding opportunities of all kinds, sourced from the creativity sphere.

Who is it for?

Makelinks.africa is catered towards African creativity at large, from creative individuals, to creative industries institutions, to the African diaspora and related organizations.

For this, that

Education / Academia

I am not from the African continent, can I still be a part of the makelinks community?

Education / Academia

How do I get access to makelinks.africa features?

Yes, you can. Makelinks is a digital network space created to generate resilience in the creative community. This revolution starts in Africa, and as such inclusive and welcoming to creatives around the world.

How will you verify the level of expertise from the members?

You can sign in through our homepage and start linking up with other members of the community. This allows for a certification ecosystem. In the collaboration section, a crowdsourcing tool that allows for projects to make use of the creative value chain, reinforcing the circularity factor.

We have a built in certification system that stimulates users to mutually certify each other’s work and profiles.

Is the content curated?

Linking system
Reviewing

What kind of content is allowed?

We are also developing a “users as curators” approach, that allows for certain user profiles to curate the content in the platform.

How do I know that the information on makelinks is correct and up to date?

Formats? For undesired content, please read our Terms of Service