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Interview: Dieudo Hamadi on His Heartbreaking Documentary "Downstream to Kinshasa"
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Interview: Dieudo Hamadi on His Heartbreaking Documentary "Downstream to Kinshasa"

The Congolese director talks about bearing witness to a community's fight for justice.

Interview: Director João Paulo Miranda Maria Illustrates Afro-Brazilian Narratives in "Memory House"
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Interview: Director João Paulo Miranda Maria Illustrates Afro-Brazilian Narratives in "Memory House"

In the filmmaker's intimate film about colonialism and issues of identity, the silence often says more than the dialogue.

Interview: Rwandan Director Yuhi Amuli on His Magnetic Relationship With Film
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Interview: Rwandan Director Yuhi Amuli on His Magnetic Relationship With Film

The director and screenwriter uses his gift of storytelling to give room to the unheard voices of his East African countryfolk.

'Crazy World' is the Ugandan Action Film Poised to Bring Wakaliwood to the World
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'Crazy World' is the Ugandan Action Film Poised to Bring Wakaliwood to the World

We caught up with 'Uganda's Tarantino,' I.G.G Nabwana to talk the making of his new kung-fu kids flick

This Nigerian Magic-Realist Film Based in Igbo Tradition is Burning Up the Festival Circuit
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This Nigerian Magic-Realist Film Based in Igbo Tradition is Burning Up the Festival Circuit

We spoke to Abba Makama to get the story behind The Lost Okoroshi, his phenomenal new film about ancestral spirits that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Senegalese Filmmaker Mati Diop Tells a Haunted Story of Migration
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Senegalese Filmmaker Mati Diop Tells a Haunted Story of Migration

We caught up with the celebrated director at the Toronto International Film Festival to talk about her new film, Atlantics

Congolese Actor Stéphane Bak on His Intense Experience Shooting 'The Mercy of the Jungle' In Uganda
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Congolese Actor Stéphane Bak on His Intense Experience Shooting 'The Mercy of the Jungle' In Uganda

We catch up with the actor after the film made its North American premiere at TIFF.

Jahmil X.T. Qubeka on Telling the Visceral Story of South Africa's Legendary Outlaw, John Kepe
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Jahmil X.T. Qubeka on Telling the Visceral Story of South Africa's Legendary Outlaw, John Kepe

We touch base with the South African director for an in-depth review on his second TIFF premiere, 'Sew The Winter To My Skin.'

Meet the Director of 'Fig Tree,' a New Film About Young Love in the Midst of the Ethiopian Civil War
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Meet the Director of 'Fig Tree,' a New Film About Young Love in the Midst of the Ethiopian Civil War

At TIFF, we talk to Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian, the Ethiopian-Israeli filmmaker telling a story that has parallels to her own life

We Spoke to Kenyan Filmmaker Ng'endo Mukii About Taking Part in TIFF's Filmmaker Lab
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We Spoke to Kenyan Filmmaker Ng'endo Mukii About Taking Part in TIFF's Filmmaker Lab

Mukii was the only African to take part in the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival's professional development program.

How to Get Into an American or Canadian University as an African Student
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How to Get Into an American or Canadian University as an African Student

So, you want to go abroad for studies? Here's how.

New York African Restaurant Week 2015: Akin Akinsanya On Building NYC's African Culinary Empire
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New York African Restaurant Week 2015: Akin Akinsanya On Building NYC's African Culinary Empire

Akin Akinsanya speaks on building NYC's African culinary empire ahead of the 2015 New York African Restaurant Week.

Ugandan Playwright Judith Lucy Adong Brings African Theatre to WorldPride 2014
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Ugandan Playwright Judith Lucy Adong Brings African Theatre to WorldPride 2014

Uganda's Judith Lucy Adong explores Uganda's anti-homosexuality laws with her play 'Just Me, You and The Silence' at WorldPride in Toronto.

Interview: Cameroonian Photographer Em’kal Eyongakpa
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Interview: Cameroonian Photographer Em’kal Eyongakpa

Gallery and interview with Cameroonian photographer Em’kal Eyongakpa.

Cultural Expression After The Tunisian Revolution
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Cultural Expression After The Tunisian Revolution

Ahead of the World Nomads Tunisia Festival in NYC, we talk to Karim Maatoug about the shift in cultural expression after the Tunisian revolution.

Interview: Warsan Shire's Raw & Vulnerable Poetry
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Interview: Warsan Shire's Raw & Vulnerable Poetry

An interview with Warsan Shire. Born in 1988 to Somali parents in Kenya, Warsan was raised in London where she began writing. Her raw & vulnerable poetry has gained an international following

Recap: Freshlyground x Nneka x Blitz The Ambassador Light Up Harlem
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Recap: Freshlyground x Nneka x Blitz The Ambassador Light Up Harlem

Africa Now! brought Freshlyground, Nneka, Blitz the Ambassador, and Lokua Kanza to the historic Apollo Theater in Harlem last Saturday night.

Interview: Tunde Olaniran's Boundless Art
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Interview: Tunde Olaniran's Boundless Art

Interview with Michigan's Tunde Olaniran.