What is Story Lab?

Building the infrastructure behind African disability sport stories.

StoryLab is a continental storytelling and audience development infrastructure that brings together athletes with disabilities, broadcasters, journalists, digital creators, community storytellers, disability advocates and sport organisations to build a distributed ecosystem where stories create audiences, audiences generate data, and data drives stronger participation, investment and more inclusive sport systems across Africa.

Story Lab engine

01 / Telling the stories

Stories

Authentic, Locally led Narratives

Authentic, locally led narratives that reflect the diversity of disability sport across Africa—capturing grassroots participation, athlete journeys, communities, competitions and the people shaping more inclusive futures.

02 / The Engagement

Audiences

Discover, engage with champions

Communities that discover, engage with and champion disability sport—creating the visibility, connections and commercial value needed for the ecosystem to grow.

03 / The Data

Data

Intelligence generated through every story

Audience intelligence generated through every story, interaction and engagement, providing the evidence needed to inform decisions, unlock investment and strengthen participation systems.

How Story Lab works

Connect

build capacity and connect the people who shape the storytelling ecosystem.

Connect

Create

enable authentic stories to be created by and with the people closest to them.

Create

Amplify

distribute, share and preserve those stories so they travel further and remain accessible.

Amplify

Grow

turn greater visibility into sustained audiences, engagement and ultimately value.

Grow

Story Bank

Every story opens a pathway. Explore a growing collection of films, voices, ideas and experiences shaping disability sport across Africa.

Building narratives that power real world participation.

From Story to participation

Share Your Story

Video Title *
Title of your video / story i.e Malawi para-sports
Description *
Your story description.
Upload Your Story *
Maximum file size: 200 MB
Click choose file to upload your video file

Join a Future Cohort

Name *
Role / Background *
Skills *
Why do you want to join StoryLab? *
Country / Region *
Disability Sport Connection *
Portfolio / Links