"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
The world of cinema and theatre cries after the Malian-Burkinabé actor Sotigui Kouyaté’ died in Paris last Saturday. He was 74 and affected by a prolonged pulmonary illness. Born in Bamako, Mali, in 1936, Sotigui Kouyaté was considered a genius of African culture, which he has always defended.
For the nearly 50 million people of South Africa, the 2010 World Cup represents an opportunity to show the world its progress through sports. But for a new nonprofit organization, soccer’s biggest stage also offers an opportunity to publicize young women who tend to go unheard.
After fifty years of activity, the Kenyan Nation Media Group is celebrating with a documentary that traces the group’s journey since it hit the market in 1960.
“Forget Africa”, Africa depicted and proposed to the public as pitiful and dangerous, ill and broken. “Forget that continent without hopes and future. This is our challenge.” Words of one of the special sections’ manifesto of the African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival, to be held in Milan, Italy, from 15 to 21 March 2010.
‘Music by Prudence‘, an inspiring documentary by Roger Ross Williams about a group of disabled Zimbabwean musicians, scooped the best prize for a short documentary at the 2010 Academy Awards held in Los Angeles.
Today we meet Menya Media, a Burundese NGO – whose name means, “You know that…” in the local language – that works in a nation tormented by an armed conflict that has already caused 200,000 deaths.
Ory Okolloh, the Executive Director of Ushahidi , is from Kenya but currently lives in Johannesburg. Her blog is "outlet for her opinions. While it is primarily focused on Kenya, she reserves to write about whatever she wants."
Sokari Ekine is a Nigerian social justice activist living in Spain, with a background in technology, gender issues and human rights. She is interested in creating a community of grassroots African bloggers as a way for Africans to exchange ideas, share experiences and tell their own stories in our own words.
Native of Cape Town, Sean Jacobs lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches in Manhattan. He obsesses about the relationship between politics and popular culture, but the main rationale for his blog is to comment on what passes for media coverage of the African continent.
Rosebelle Kagumire is an experienced Ugandan Journalist. She won the best Journalist blogger English category at the Panos hosted competition in 2009. Currently she is a student of MA. Media, Conflict and Peace studies at University for Peace (UPEACE), Costa Rica.
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