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Rh add citations to articles on Wikipedia, and ll gaps in online knowledge. Library and information professionals from across Africa came together to add accurate and reliable sources to Wikipedia articles, which created the opportunity to amplify stories of African cultures, heroes/heroines, and innovations by Africans in African languages (AfLIA, 2020a). As Felix Nartey, Wikimedia Foundation coordinator of the event, said, “The library community is an important ally for Wikipedia and our mission to ensure every human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. By training librarians in Africa to contribute knowledge to Wikipedia, we’re improving the encyclopedia’s global representation and diversity, and we’re developing local leaders in Africa for future initiatives that improves public knowledge online using reliable sources” (AfLIA, 2019).



Figure 2 #1Lib1Ref Campaign, January 2020. Attribution: Kaizenify, CC BY-SA 4.0. , via Wikimedia Commons.

The partnership, according to AfLIA Human Capacity Development & Training Director, Dr. Nkem E. Osuigwe, “will be a great