It could be said that the current state of the African scientific sector is representative of the continent’s struggle for meaningful and far-reaching independence. According to figures released by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics in 2011, sub-Saharan Africa has the world’s lowest tertiary education enrolment rate, as only 6 per cent of the total African […]
Category: culture
The Atelier – a Christmas Appeal for Gando, Burkina Faso
The founder of Schulbausteine für Gando e.V., Francis Kéré, had a simple goal: born in Gando, Burkina Faso, he wanted to build a school which would withstand the rain season and be well adapted to the climate and culture. Today, the aim of our projects is to provide education and localized needs in an underserved […]
An African Election – a film by Jarreth Merz
An African Election is a film by Jarreth Merz. The 2008 presidential elections in Ghana, West Africa, serve as a backdrop for this feature documentary, which looks behind the scenes of a complex, political machinery of a third world country trying to catch up with the first world. Merz embarks on a once in a […]
Africa-UK Annual Conference 2012
Faith and Development in Africa: A new Perspective on Diaspora Engagement 3 December 2012, 8:45am-4:15pm Chelsea Old Town Hall, King’s Road, London SW3 5EE
Interview with Julius Amedume, director
Julius Amedume is a Ghanaian UK-born film director, in this interview during the 31st African film festival of Verona, Italy (11-20 November 2011), he talks about his film, “Precipice”.
The afterlife of African studio photography
Is African studio photography, Cape Town art writer Sean O’Toole asks in frieze magazine, dying out? The answer, non-subscribers, is maybe. Everywhere in the modern world the business of professional photography is in decline. O’Tool argues that studio photography has suffered the economies of the ‘digital revolution’ and the rise of the mobile phone camera. […]
Egypt elections: a political song
Egypt’s parliamentary elections are underway despite the intense violence that has rocked the nation over the past few weeks. While we all watch and wait (and vote!), a friend reminded me of this song (originally by the legendary political musician Sheikh Imam) sung by Eskenderella, a popular Egyptian band. A rough translation of the lyrics […]
African Film Projects Found Producers at Tarifa
November 23rd, Tarifa, Spain – Three brand new African film projects from Burkina Faso, Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo found their producers at this year´s 3rd África Prouce Co-Production Forum and thus are able to enter into pre-production phase. África Produce, the only co-production forum for African films in Spain, took place in June […]
INTERVIEW WITH CLEOPHAS, CO-DIRECTOR OF BE YE KA YE
As the 31st African film festival of Verona enters its third day, today, a lot of African artists are ceasing the opportunity to share their visions of the Ancient Continent, as its people seeks a new way of seeing their reality. In this interview, Cleophas, a Burkinabe co-director of “BE YE KA YE”, a documentary […]
Jeta Conquers Verona with his Black Gold
“An important film able to entertain and provoke thoughts; able to frighten the powers that being and consolidate a reputation of an indigenous cinema”, a local news agency, L’Arena di Verona said of Black Gold as it opened the 31st African film festival of Verona last night (11/11/2011).