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Idris Elba has shared more on his plans to help build the entertainment industry in Africa. The Golden Globe winner has said he planned to build film studios in Ghana and Tanzania. A 2021 UNESCO ...

The South African film and television sector has called on the Minister of Trade, Industry, and Competition, Parks Tau, to resolve the crisis stemming from prolonged dysfunction of the DTIC Film and ...

Netflix began its Africa operations in South Africa in 2016. When the US streaming giant announced it was setting up shop in Nigeria in 2020, many west African film-makers, writers, artists and media ...

Does the absence of African films in the main competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival point to a glass ceiling? Or is African cinema still slowly but surely finding its way to the top table?

The Black Axe are one of the most feared and powerful organised crime groups in the world. The highly secretive mafia, referred to as a cult in Nigeria, have been accused of countless murders and are ...

A recent book, Queer Bodies in African Films, studies the growing LGBTIQ+ output from film-makers around the continent, from Morocco to South Africa. In the process it analyses what queerness is and ...