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AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Talal Afifi has worked for years to revive Sudanese cinema, which languished through three decades of authoritarian rule.…

BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS Supporters of Tunisia’s Club Africain donated more than $450,000 in one day as they battled to…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Kenyan distance runner Eliud Kipchoge made history by completing a marathon in under two hours. His feat was…

BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS “Painting is for lazy people,” Ajarb Bernard Ategwa’s father would tell him as a child. Daydreaming…

VOICE OF AMERICA Bayern Munich, the champion of Germany’s Bundesliga, the top tier of the nation’s football league system, has…

ADF STAFF Netflix has commissioned its first African animated series from South Africa’s Triggerfish Animation Studio. Zambian writer Malenga Mulendema…

REUTERS The NBA will invest millions of dollars in Basketball Africa League, its first professional league outside North America, and…

BBC NEWS AT BBC.UK/NEWS A mobile phone app that lets users access an archive of Ethiopian music is being launched…

Cameroon’s top female football star has opened an academy to teach the sport to girls. The academy is the first…

To “showcase the best African narratives,” some artists and writers have teamed up to publish comic books in print and…