With close ties to the audiovisual production, animation, and television industry in Côte d'Ivoire, the duo decided to launch Afro VFX with the ambition of putting Côte d'Ivoire, and more broadly Africa, on the international production map. To do this, they decided to draw on their experience and expertise to...
Interview with Yves Bigot, President and CEO of TV5MONDE
Yves Bigot needs no introduction. Journalist, writer, director, producer... he has been at the helm of TV5MONDE for nearly 10 years. On the occasion of the Cannes Film Festival Market, where the Pavillon Afriques is being held for the third consecutive year, he agreed to share with us his vision...
Interview with Toussaint Tiendrebeogo, Secretary of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions of UNESCO's Culture Sector
Toussaint Tiendrebeogo was responsible for cultural and creative industry development policies at the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF) and is now Head of the Cultural Diversity Unit and Secretary of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions at the United Nations Educational,...
Khaby Lame, the most followed personality in the world on TikTok, was born in Senegal.
Khaby Lame was born in Senegal in 2000 and has lived in Italy since he was a child. At the age of 22, he became the most followed personality on the social network TikTok with nearly 142.4 million followers, ahead of American Charli D'Amelio. Khaby Lame parodies all kinds of...
Interview with Michel Mutombo Cartier, Managing Director of A+ and A+ Ivoire
It's back-to-school time for the A+ and A+ Ivoire channels. What's in store? The 2022 season promises to be rich in content. We have redefined our objectives for the occasion and can already announce several major new features coming to the channels, including sports, laughter with a new weekly show,...
Interview with Françoise Ellong, director of the series "Le Futur est à Nous" (The Future Belongs to Us)
Originally from Cameroon and Benin, Françoise Ellong grew up in Paris and studied film. At a very young age, she entered the Prix du Jeune Écrivain de Langue Française (Young French Language Writer Award). The competition jury awarded her a prize for her short story "Journal Intime d'un Meurtrier" (Diary...
The Hirondelle Foundation is seeking candidates—journalists—for its program aimed at strengthening the media in West Africa.
The Hirondelle Foundation is launching a call for applications to select a group of journalists for its professional training program "Violence Prevention and Media: Strengthening West African Media." Its objective is to strengthen the constructive role of the media in West Africa in preventing conflict and violent extremism by promoting...
ZACU TV, a new channel dedicated to fiction, broadcast entirely in Kinyarwanda and produced by CANAL+.
Following NOVEGASY, SUNU YEUF, and MABOKE TV, ZACU TV is now the fourth local-language fiction channel published by the CANAL+ Group in sub-Saharan Africa. As we announced last July, the acquisition of ZACU Entertainment, a major player in content production and distribution in Rwanda, enables the CANAL+ Group to strengthen...
Benin: HAAC wants to develop high-quality journalism
The proliferation of fake news, propaganda, and misinformation has greatly contributed to weakening journalism and access to quality information on the continent, as in the rest of the world. It is necessary, even crucial, to encourage the development of quality journalism, particularly through the development of local skills. With this...