Trybe is all about sharing opportunities for African creatives. But what does that actually mean?
Simply: we only share opportunities an African creative can apply for. Every listing is read properly before it goes on the site, and if African creatives are shut out of it, we do not publish it.
That does not mean everything here is Africa-only. Most of it is not — and that is the part worth understanding.
Most of what we share is open worldwide
More than four in five of the opportunities open on Trybe right now are open worldwide.
Worldwide means exactly what it says. Anyone, anywhere, can apply — so if you are a creative based in Africa, you can apply. There is no separate list you need to be on and no quota you are competing for.
We say this because it is easy to scroll past an open call marked worldwide and quietly assume it is meant for somebody else. A lot of them are run from Europe or America, the photographs rarely look like us, and nothing on the page says you are welcome here. They are still open to you. That is the whole reason they are on this site.
How to tell who an opportunity is for
Every listing tells you, and you can filter by it before you even open one. Down the left of the opportunities page there is a Region filter:
What each one means:
- Worldwide — open to all nationalities. Apply from anywhere.
- Africa — for creatives on the continent. Some of these are for one part of it, like West or East Africa, and the listing will say so.
- Africa & the diaspora — for African creatives wherever they now live, so being outside the continent is not a bar.
- A single country — Ghana, Uganda, and others as they come up. Usually you need to live there or hold that passport.
Open a listing and it says so again
You do not have to take the filter's word for it. Every opportunity page carries the eligibility on the right, and a Who can apply section written out in full:
The tags along the top are the quick version — who it is for, where it is open to, and whether there is a fee to enter. The panel on the right is the detail.
Looking for something closer to home
If you want only the opportunities for your own country or region, tick it in the Region filter and the list narrows to those:
These lists are shorter, and that is the honest picture: opportunities written specifically for African creatives are rarer than they should be. It is also why we do not only list those. Restricting the site to Africa-only calls would leave you with a handful a month, when there are hundreds you are already eligible for.
Always read the details
The filters and the eligibility line get you to the right shortlist. Before you spend an evening on an application, open the organiser's own page and read it — age limits, what stage of your career it is meant for, what the application actually asks you to send. We flag what we find, but the organiser's page is the final word.
Have an opportunity you would like us to share? Email opportunities@trybeafrica.com. For the kinds of things we list, there is a separate post on that.