Terms and Conditions
Last updated: 22 October 2026
1. Introduction
Welcome to This Is Africa (TIA).
These Terms and Conditions govern your access to and use of the This Is Africa website, its articles, digital publications, features, and associated online platforms.
This Is Africa is an independent pan-African digital media platform that publishes news, informed opinion, analysis, and stories about Africa and the wider world. Our mission is to inform, educate, and connect audiences while amplifying African voices, knowledge, identities, and perspectives.
By accessing or using our website, you agree to these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree with them, please discontinue use of the website.
2. About This Is Africa
This Is Africa operates as a Community Trust in Kenya and provides digital content covering topics including politics, governance, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship, culture, identity, human rights, development, and international affairs.
References to “we”, “us”, “our”, or “TIA” in these Terms mean This Is Africa and the team responsible for operating its website and digital publication.
These Terms apply to visitors, readers, contributors, advertisers, and other users of our website, subject to any additional terms that may apply to specific services or agreements.
3. Use of Our Website
You may access and use our website for lawful purposes, including reading, researching, sharing, and discussing our published content.
When using our website, you agree not to:
- Violate applicable laws or regulations.
- Interfere with the security, functionality, or operation of our website.
- Attempt to gain unauthorised access to our systems, accounts, or data.
- Introduce malicious software, harmful code, or other disruptive material.
- Use automated tools to collect content or personal information in ways that violate applicable law or our rights.
- Impersonate another person or misrepresent your identity or affiliation.
- Use our platform to distribute unlawful, fraudulent, threatening, defamatory, or deliberately misleading material.
We reserve the right to take reasonable action against misuse of our website, including restricting access where appropriate and lawful.
4. Intellectual Property and Copyright
Unless otherwise indicated, content published by This Is Africa, including original articles, photographs, graphics, illustrations, videos, logos, design elements, and other materials, is owned by or licensed to TIA or the relevant rights holder.
Content is protected by applicable copyright, trademark, and intellectual property laws.
You may:
- Read and access content for personal, educational, and research purposes.
- Share links to our articles.
- Quote reasonable extracts for criticism, review, commentary, or other purposes permitted by applicable law, with appropriate attribution and a link to the original source where practicable.
You may not, without the necessary permission or a valid legal exception:
- Reproduce or republish substantial portions of our content.
- Republish entire articles on another website or publication.
- Sell, commercially exploit, or distribute our content as your own.
- Remove copyright notices or misrepresent the source of our work.
- Use our name, logo, or branding in a manner that falsely suggests endorsement or affiliation.
For permissions to reproduce or republish our content, please contact our editorial team at info@thisisafrica.me.
Nothing in these Terms limits rights expressly granted under applicable copyright law.
5. Accuracy and Editorial Responsibility
We strive to publish accurate, credible, and informative journalism. However, news and public affairs can develop rapidly, and information may change after publication.
Unless expressly stated otherwise:
- Our content is provided for general information, education, news, and commentary.
- We do not guarantee that every item of information will always be complete, current, or free from error.
- Opinions expressed by contributors are not necessarily the views of This Is Africa.
- Published articles may be updated, corrected, clarified, or withdrawn in accordance with our editorial standards.
If you identify a potential factual error, please refer to our Corrections Policy and contact our editorial team.
We do not guarantee that published commentary or analysis will reflect every perspective or interpretation of a subject.
6. No Professional Advice
Content on our website is not intended to replace professional legal, medical, financial, investment, or other specialised advice.
You should seek qualified professional assistance before making decisions that require individual assessment or expert guidance.
You remain responsible for how you interpret and use information obtained from our website.
7. User Comments and Contributions
Where our website permits comments, discussions, article submissions, or other user-generated content, you are responsible for the material you submit.
You must not submit content that:
- Is unlawful, fraudulent, threatening, or knowingly defamatory.
- Infringes another person’s copyright, trademark, privacy, or other rights.
- Contains hate speech, targeted harassment, or unlawful discrimination.
- Knowingly presents fabricated information as fact.
- Discloses confidential or personal information without an appropriate legal basis.
- Contains spam, malicious links, or unauthorised promotional material.
We reserve the right to moderate, refuse, edit where appropriate, or remove user-generated content that breaches these Terms or our editorial standards.
Submitting a comment or contribution does not guarantee publication.
8. Terms for Contributors and Guest Writers
We welcome submissions from journalists, researchers, writers, academics, creatives, and other contributors across Africa and the diaspora.
By submitting content to This Is Africa, you confirm that, to the best of your knowledge:
- You have the right to submit the material.
- The material is original or its sources and permissions have been appropriately disclosed.
- Your submission does not knowingly infringe another person’s intellectual property or other rights.
- Factual claims, quotations, and references are presented honestly and can be supported where appropriate.
- Any relevant conflicts of interest, sponsorship, or substantial use of AI tools have been disclosed.
Unless a separate written agreement states otherwise, submitting material does not automatically transfer ownership of your copyright to This Is Africa.
By submitting content for editorial consideration, you authorise us to review it and communicate with you about possible publication. Any permission to publish, edit, distribute, or repurpose accepted work will be governed by the applicable contributor agreement, written permissions, and relevant law.
We may decline submissions that do not meet our editorial, legal, or quality standards.
Please review our Submission Guidelines and Editorial Policy before submitting work.
9. Advertising and Sponsored Content
This Is Africa may provide advertising, sponsored content, promotional opportunities, and partnerships, subject to availability and applicable requirements.
Advertising and sponsored content should be distinguishable from independent editorial material.
Advertisers and sponsors are responsible for ensuring that their submitted materials and claims are lawful, accurate, appropriately authorised, and compliant with applicable advertising requirements.
Advertising does not guarantee independent news coverage, favourable reporting, editorial endorsement, or control over our editorial decisions.
We reserve the right to reject, suspend, or remove advertising that is misleading, unlawful, deceptive, or inconsistent with our standards.
Separate written agreements may apply to particular advertising arrangements.
10. Third-Party Websites and Services
Our website may contain links to external websites, social media platforms, embedded content, and third-party services.
These links are provided for convenience, information, or additional context. We do not control all third-party websites and are not responsible for their independent content, availability, security, or privacy practices.
Accessing an external website is at your own discretion. You should review the applicable terms and privacy policies of third-party services before using them.
The inclusion of a link does not necessarily constitute an endorsement by This Is Africa.
11. Privacy and Personal Information
Your use of our website may involve the collection and processing of personal information.
Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal information, including information provided through contact forms, newsletter subscriptions, contributor submissions, and website technologies.
Please review our Privacy Policy at https://thisisafrica.me/ for further information, or contact info@thisisafrica.me with privacy-related enquiries.
12. Website Availability and Security
We aim to maintain a reliable and secure website. However, we cannot guarantee that the website will always be available, uninterrupted, error-free, or compatible with every device or browser.
Access may occasionally be suspended or restricted for maintenance, security, technical issues, upgrades, or other operational reasons.
You are responsible for using appropriate security measures on your own devices and for maintaining the confidentiality of any account credentials if account features are available.
Nothing in these Terms excludes obligations that cannot lawfully be excluded.
13. Disclaimer of Warranties
To the extent permitted by applicable law, the website and its content are provided on an “as available” basis.
We make reasonable efforts to maintain the quality and reliability of our publication but do not warrant that the website will be uninterrupted, that every item of content will be error-free, or that the website will meet every user’s individual requirements.
This section does not exclude any warranty, right, or protection that cannot legally be excluded or limited.
14. Limitation of Liability
To the extent permitted by applicable law, This Is Africa will not be liable for losses arising from your inability to access the website, your reliance on general information published on the website, or the independent conduct or content of third-party services.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability where such exclusion or limitation would be unlawful, including any liability that cannot legally be excluded under applicable Kenyan law.
Where liability cannot be excluded, it will be determined in accordance with applicable law and the circumstances of the relevant claim.
15. Indemnity
To the extent permitted by law, you may be responsible for losses, claims, or reasonable expenses arising from your unlawful use of our website, your material breach of these Terms, or your infringement of another person’s rights.
This provision does not apply where responsibility cannot lawfully be imposed on you or where the relevant loss results from our own conduct for which we are legally responsible.
16. Changes to These Terms
We may revise these Terms and Conditions to reflect changes in our website, services, editorial practices, business operations, or applicable law.
When we make changes, we will update the date shown at the top of this page. Material changes may be communicated through our website or other appropriate channels where necessary.
Your continued use of the website after revised Terms take effect constitutes acceptance where such acceptance is recognised by applicable law. If you do not agree with the revised Terms, you should stop using the website.
17. Suspension and Termination
We may suspend or restrict access to all or part of our website where reasonably necessary for security, maintenance, legal compliance, prevention of misuse, or protection of our users and publication.
Where appropriate and lawful, we may take action against users who repeatedly or seriously breach these Terms.
Any action taken will be subject to applicable law and will not affect rights or obligations that have already accrued.
18. Governing Law and Disputes
These Terms and Conditions are governed by the laws of Kenya, subject to any mandatory legal protections or rules that apply in the circumstances.
If a dispute arises concerning these Terms or the use of our website, we encourage the parties to attempt to resolve it through good-faith communication.
Where a dispute cannot be resolved informally, it may be referred to the appropriate courts or dispute-resolution processes with jurisdiction under applicable law.
Nothing in this section prevents a person from exercising any statutory rights available to them.
19. Contact Us
If you have questions about these Terms and Conditions, copyright permissions, website use, contributor submissions, or advertising, please contact us using the details below.
Organisation: This Is Africa (TIA)
Location: Kenya
Email: info@thisisafrica.me
Website: https://thisisafrica.me
For privacy-related questions, please contact us at info@thisisafrica.me.
This Is Africa — Informing, Educating and Connecting.
These Terms and Conditions should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, Editorial Policy, Corrections Policy, and Submission Guidelines.
