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Sudan’s Cinema Flickers Back to Life
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Talal Afifi has worked for years to revive Sudanese cinema, which languished through three decades of authoritarian rule. With the fall of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir, he sees new hope.
When Afifi attended a…
Fans Donate $450,000 to Save Football Team
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Supporters of Tunisia’s Club Africain donated more than $450,000 in one day as they battled to save the financially troubled club. The donors included one blind fan who chose to forgo the medicine he had been…
Marathoner’s Feat Inspires a Nation
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Kenyan distance runner Eliud Kipchoge made history by completing a marathon in under two hours. His feat was greeted with joy and pride in his home country.
“I am happy today because he has won in Kenya and in the…
Cameroonian Painter is International Success
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“Painting is for lazy people,” Ajarb Bernard Ategwa’s father would tell him as a child. Daydreaming and doodling in his schoolbooks would often get him scolded. But the Cameroonian artist, now 30, got the last…
German Champions Open Football School in Ethiopia
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Bayern Munich, the champion of Germany’s Bundesliga, the top tier of the nation’s football league system, has signed an agreement to open its first football school in Africa, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Bayern Munich…
NETFLIX Animated Series Breaks Barriers
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Netflix has commissioned its first African animated series from South Africa’s Triggerfish Animation Studio. Zambian writer Malenga Mulendema created the series after winning a competition to find talent from across the…