NEXT DRONE CAMPs: Lagos, Nairobi, & Johannesburg
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Meet like-minded individuals
africanDrone is committed to creating a real-life community of drone pilots, journalists, entrepreneurs, government officials, and all other interested parties. To this end, we periodically host drone camps and story camps dedicated to:
Imparting knowledge of latest technology/techniques;
Networking with like-minded individuals and businesses;
Providing direct grants awarded to promising story ideas;
Gaining practical flying experience and training.
Our schedule of training camps and story grants is ongoing, sign up here to keep updated and when the next one will be!
Drone camp: Lagos
We recently had the privilege of running a hands-on drone journalism camp in Lagos, Nigeria, bringing together journalists from across the city to explore how drones can transform reporting. The training was designed to make aerial reporting accessible and practical, giving journalists the tools to experiment with drones as part of their storytelling toolkit. Over the course of the camp, more than 15 participants engaged with modules on drone safety and ethics, visual storytelling, aerial mapping, and data analysis. What started as a seed of an idea quickly grew into a fully fledged program through the collaboration of africanDRONE, Code for Africa (CfA), and Workstation Lagos—with strong support from local partners in Nigeria.
Drone camp: zanzibar
Alongside the ZanSEA conference in Zanzibar, we hosted a one-day drone journalism workshop focused on the practical use of drones in reporting. Participants explored how aerial tools can support breaking news coverage, data collection, and reporting in hard-to-reach places. Journalists from Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, and the UK took part, gaining both technical knowledge and hands-on flying experience. The workshop emphasized not just piloting skills, but also the ethical and editorial opportunities of working with drones. africanDRONE is supporting these participants in developing their own drone journalism projects, putting these lessons directly into practice.
drone camp:
cape town
A group of South African journalists and civil rights organizations tackled questions such as: When and how can drones be used to improve storytelling? What are the rules that apply in different jurisdictions? This was South Africa’s first drone camp, a three-day, hands-on event in Cape Town organized by ICFJ Knight Fellow Chris Roper. The 30 participants included journalists from 12 of South Africa’s leading media outlets, and for most, it was their first time flying the unmanned aircraft.
story camp:
STONE TOWN
20 African journalists (winners of the Code For Africa Impact Africa storytelling grant) came to Zanzibar for a boot camp on interactive multimedia storytelling techniques, drone use in stories, photography, social media, and much more. Their stories were on topics ranging from poor health services for pregnant women in rural Kenya to the loss of cocoa farms to illegal mining in Ghana.
DRONE CAMP: NAIROBI
In partnership with IPAEA (International Press Association East Africa), africanDRONE hosted a one-day workshop and drone flying demonstration in Nairobi, Kenya in July 2025. This workshop featured expert drone pilots and mapping experts from Kenyan company Customized Aviation Solutions, LTD and 20 journalists who live and work in East Africa. Thanks to the help of IPAEA and Baraza Media Lab for hosting this experience, and for Customized Aviation for the use of your drones and talent!