By Khalifa Hemed
Published January 29, 2021
Wiki Loves Africa, the annual competition of photographs and short videos that celebrates diversity across Africa while encouraging Africans to document that lifestyle through user-generated content for Wikipedia, invites submissions on the theme, Health and Wellness, from February 15, 2021.
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“The theme for Wiki Loves Africa 2021 is to visually interrogate all those factors that contribute to health and wellness. What is the difference between health and wellness? Health is seen as the state of physical, mental and social well-being in which disease and infirmity are absent, whereas wellness is the state of living a healthy lifestyle through enhanced well-being,” Wiki In Africa, the organisers of the competition, say.
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So what sort of content may be submitted?
“For Health, we would like photographers to consider the traditional and modern medicines to the individuals that ensure our health,” Wiki in Africa say. “Health can encompass environmental health, physical health, social health, emotional health, intellectual health, and spiritual health, as well as sexual and reproductive health education.”
On Wellness, that they define as ‘the state of living a healthy lifestyle through enhanced well-being’, Wiki in Africa say they are looking for material that capture “practices that help to keep the mind and body fighting against illness.”
Such practices may, among others, include diet, exercise, sleep patterns, and self-care strategies.
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So what informs the theme of Health and Wellness?
“2020 was a year focused on illness, sickness, fear and loss. For Wiki Loves Africa’s 2021 theme, we intend to take a positive view of where we are and how we can be into the future,” the organisers of the competition that marks seven years in 2021, say. “If nothing else, 2020 brought to the fore the importance of our health and wellness.”
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