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...
Togo: National TV channel TVT unveils its new visual identity
In Togo, the national television channel, TVT, has unveiled a new visual identity. Revealed on Monday, June 26, 2023, by Professor Akodah Ayewouadan, Minister of Communication and Media, the new visual identity is the result of a competition launched by the channel, with a prize fund of 2 million CFA...
Life TV celebrates its third anniversary
Life TV celebrates its third anniversary on June 26, 2023. Selected as one of the new channels for Ivorian digital terrestrial television (DTT), Life TV chose to launch several months after the other channels: A+ Ivoire began broadcasting on DTT on January 14, 2019, NCI followed on December 16, 2019,...
The series "ICI C' BABI" available on TV5MONDEplus starting June 7
TV5MONDE is launching the Ivorian series "ICI C' BABI" on June 7, exclusively on its French-language platform TV5MONDEplus. This original series (41 episodes x 13 minutes), directed by Boris Oué, co-written by author Armand Gauz based on an original idea by Charly Kodjo, will also be broadcast on all TV5MONDE...
The new identity of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast unveiled
The CAF and the Côte d'Ivoire Organizing Committee, COCAN, unveiled the official identity of the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Côte d'Ivoire 2023 on Saturday. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) and the Côte d'Ivoire Organizing Committee (COCAN) have unveiled the official identity of the 2023 Africa Cup of...
Everything you need to know about the 2024 Africa Cup of Nations in 10 key points
Exactly six months before the start of the 34th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, Adweknow reviews the key information to remember. The official name of the 2024 Africa Cup of Nations is: TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Côte d'Ivoire 2023. The 34th edition of the Africa Cup...
The dates for the 23rd edition of the Clap Ivoire festival have been announced!
In 2022, six young African filmmakers won a short film competition launched by UNESCO and Netflix on the theme of "African folk tales reinvented." The goal? To promote local talent and finance creativity by allocating a budget for the creation of works. And with good reason: beyond television series, Africa,...