Ghana to Launch ‘Highlife to the World’ Campaign in Barcelona Ahead of 2027 Global Rollout
The campaign follows Highlife’s inscription on UNESCO’s Representative List and will form part of...
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Idris Elba, Nile Media and Action Xtreme Are Building a West African Action Film Slate
The partnership will begin with two films entering production between late 2026 and early 2027, with plans to...
African Cinema Is Going Global. African Film Festivals Face a Value Test.
As African films gain more visibility on the global festival circuit, festivals on the continent may need to...
AI Is Making Consoles More Expensive. African Gamers May Pay the Bigger Price.
Microsoft’s latest Xbox price increase is not just another gaming industry update. It is a signal...
Microsoft to Raise Xbox Console Prices Worldwide From August 1
The new price increase comes as storage and memory costs rise sharply, with AI infrastructure demand putting...
Martin Scorsese to Lead Diani Film Festival Jury — But That’s Not the Only Story
Martin Scorsese has been named Jury President for the African Short Film Competition at Kenya’s Diani Fi...
Ghanaian-British Creatives You Should Know
A running list of Ghanaian-born, Ghanaian-British and Ghanaian-heritage creatives shaping culture in the UK an...
Juma Mufasa Releases New Single “Groove”
Juma Mufasa has released his latest single, “Groove,” a feel-good dance record.Produced by...
From Cameroon to Kaduna, African Stories Made Their Mark at Tribeca 2026.
African cinema had a strong showing at the 2026 Tribeca Festival, with African and African-linked titles picki...
Silverbird Accra Mall Ranks as Anglophone West Africa’s Second Highest-Attended Cinema in 2025
FilmOne's 2025 Nigeria Box Office Yearbook offers one of the clearest data points yet in Ghana's long-running...
Afrobeats Licensing Is Getting Harder for Nollywood. But Where Does Collaboration Come In?
Nigerian filmmaker and music video director Dami Twitch has raised an important point about the chan...
China-Hunan Film Week Opens in Kenya, but the Bigger Story Is Cultural Influence
The China-Hunan Film Week opened in Nairobi this week, bringing together government officials, diplomats, sc...
Sarkodie and Shatta Wale Reconnect on “Everlasting”
Ghana’s music conversation got a major spark this week as Sarkodie and Shatta Wale reconnected on a new...
The African Films At Tribeca 2026
As the 2026 Tribeca Festival opens in New York, we are watching out for the African films that made it to Nort...
10 African Films You Shouldn’t Ignore
African cinema is too often treated like a niche category, when in reality it holds some of the most urgent, i...
Canal+ Acquires Nigerian Film "The Weekend" for 60+ Territories. Here's What this Means for African Film
On 16 April, Trino Motion Pictures announced that its psychological thriller The Weekend had been acqui...
Cannes 2026: The African Films Selected and the Journey That Got Them There
The Film Directors from Africa whose films made it to Cannes: Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo, Rafiki Fari...
Juma Mufasa is “Phenomenal” in New Single
Juma Mufasa's new single has a very striking line that sounds like certainty but it isn't. “Of course...
Has 'Authenticity' Killed Your African Film Pitch? When a Necessary Revolution Becomes a Creative Ceiling.
Kofi is an indie filmmaker in Accra. He loves sci-fi not Africa-as-metaphor sci-fi, just imagination doing its...
Staying When You Are Not Liked: What Wendy Shay’s Career Reveals about Ghana’s Music Industry
Ghanaian artist Wendy Shay did not arrive to applause. From the moment she entered the industry, she was po...