YouTube has asked artists and creators from Nigeria to apply for grants from its $100m Black Voices Fund.
The global fund will, over the next three years, offer support to Black artists and creators so that they can thrive on YouTube.
Managing Director of Emerging Markets, YouTube EMEA, Alex Okosi, said the $100m fund was first announced in June and has since been officially named the #YouTubeBlack Voices Fund.
This year, according to Okosi, the fund will be focusing its efforts on creators within the US, Brazil and Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa.
The #YouTubeBlack Voices Fund is part of the work currently underway to ensure that YouTube is a place where Black artists, creators and users can share their stories and be protected.
“Along with our commitment to amplifying marginalised voices on the content side, we are also investing in product and policy changes that will continue to advance YouTube’s mission of giving everyone a voice and showing them the world,” Okosi stressed.
