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If a picture tells a thousand-word story, video does that a thousand times better.

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About us

Call us sentimental, but this is the only planet we have. The vast majority of climate change content is created by people who are well-meaning but is unfortunately aimed at the wrong audience. And using the wrong formats.

We want to change that.

Our newly-minted mission statement is “we’re doing this because we give a shit” and we speak consumer as a first language. At Stuff we’ve always been experts at explaining complicated, complex and technical things to our audience in the simplest (and most sarcastic) way possible.

Climate change is no different. It’s complex, technical and sometimes counter intuitive. We think we can bring our expertise at doing this translation from tech to saving the planet from ourselves. And we think we can do it – with Rico’s help – for financial literacy and voter education. The first thing we’re going to do is stop using those terms, but (for now) they are a useful shorthand that everyone understands.

01What is it?

Maven.Africa aims to provide visual illustrations of the world we live in.

We will initially focus on climate change videos (in a vertical 9 x 16 format) and then voter education and financial literacy.

02What does
it do?

The vertical video format is designed for TikTok, Instagram and Facebook but the ideal is for these videos to be sent via WhatsApp.

Drawn by renowned South African cartoonist Rico Schacherl, they are short and informative. They are deliberately to the point.

03Who is the
audience?

Africans with smartphones. Who watch vertical videos. We want them to be sent via WhatsApp, so the videos have to be short and small to send easily.

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