A Nigerian freelance journalist, Rakiya Muhammad, has won the first-place prize at the 2026 Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards, as global efforts intensify to address the shortage of well-documented African stories on Wikipedia and other digital knowledge platforms.
Muhammad received the top honour from the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and the Wikimedia Foundation for her feature, ‘West Africa’s Borderless Women: Inside the Yoruba Sisterhood Linking Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire’. The story highlights how generations of Yoruba women from Ejigbo in southwest Nigeria have built thriving businesses in Côte d’Ivoire, strengthening economic and cultural ties between the two West African countries.
According to the report, women from Ejigbo now dominate parts of Abidjan’s markets, while remittances from the community account for as much as 80 percent of the town’s local funding, demonstrating the economic importance of cross-border migration often overlooked in mainstream reporting.
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