With 190 days to go until the 34th Africa Cup of Nations, which will take place in Ivory Coast, the organizing committee has revealed the official mascot: Akwaba the elephant, presented as an ambassador of Ivorian hospitality. A competition was held to find this mascot. Three young artists were rewarded...
Miss Ivory Coast: a special digital system set up by RTI
For the Miss Côte d'Ivoire show, broadcast on RTI, a combined COMICI (COmite MIss Côte d'Ivoire) & RTI Digital team brought all the stages to life on social media, from the first day of the preliminary selections in the country to the grand finale at the Sofitel Abidjan Hotel Ivoire...
Screening of Black Santiago Club: our opinion
Adweknow attended the screening of the first episode of Black Santiago Club last Wednesday (July 5) at Mediawan, in the presence of the producers (Canal+, Mediawan, and Keewu Productions). In a packed theater, we were able to discover this series in (almost) preview, as it has been available to Canal+...
ePOP (Petites Ondes Participatives) competition: Winners of the 2023 edition
The winners of the fifth edition of the "Fais voir ce qu'ils ressentent" (Show what they feel) video competition, launched as part of the "ePOP - Petites Ondes Participatives" project, were announced on Monday, July 3, during a ceremony co-hosted by Anne-Cécile Bras, presenter of the program "C'est pas du...
Women producers, screenwriters, and directors join forces to launch the Indigo Fund
They are screenwriters, producers, and directors who have chosen to join forces to support African women in the audiovisual sector. Angela Aquereburu, Rama Thiaw, Tella Kpomahou, and Samantha Biffot decided to create the Indigo Fund to find financial partners and support women working in film and audiovisual media. "In Togo,...
LCI suspended for three months in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso's media regulator has decided to suspend French news channel LCI for three months after a journalist's comments on the situation regarding jihadist violence were described as "false information." LCI's programs "are suspended for a period of three months in Burkina Faso on all pay-TV service providers' packages, effective...
Black Santiago Club on CANAL+ Première on July 3, 2023
The only African series presented at the 2023 Séries Mania festival and winner of the Best Music award at the DAKAR SERIES festival last May, BLACK SANTIAGO CLUB is an 8-episode, 52-minute musical thriller based on the story of a legendary club in Cotonou, where the great Black Santiago orchestra,...
Two new local language channel projects at CANAL+
Every year for the past five years, CANAL+ has added a local-language channel to its channel offering in French-speaking Africa and the Indian Ocean. Two new projects are in the pipeline. 1/ Launched in November 2019 and published by Théma. SUNU YEUF is a 100% Senegalese channel dedicated to Senegalese...
The CANAL+ Group increases its stake in MultiChoice to 31.67%
CANAL+ continues to increase its stake in MultiChoice to 31.67% of the capital. Since 2020, the CANAL+ group, which held 6.5% of the capital, has increased its stake in MultiChoice several times, becoming the largest shareholder in September 2021 with 15.37%, then with 18.44% in June 2022 and 30.27% in...
Grenelle Film Summit: Gabon considers the future of the sector
Cinema is booming on the African continent. In the French-speaking sub-region, countries such as Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, Benin, and Burkina Faso, which has been hosting the unmissable FESPACO film festival for decades, are leading the way in this field. Recently, Gabon has been making headlines in this field. The local...