Beyond FESPACO, the continent's premier film festival, Burkina Faso is hosting its first international festival dedicated to short films: the Ouaga Court Festival. "There are very few venues for screening short films on the African continent, whereas elsewhere in the world there are high-quality, well-known festivals dedicated to this form...
Announcements, conflicts, and uncertainties three months before the 2022 FIFA World Cup
In July 2021, to everyone's surprise, it was announced that the free-to-air and pay TV rights for the 2022 FIFA World Cup for French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa had been awarded to a Togolese company that was virtually unknown until then: New World TV. A year later, New World TV, whose...
Netflix Creative Scholarships Equity Fund opens to students in West and Central Africa
Netflix announces the expansion of its Netflix Creative Equity Scholarship Fund to film and audiovisual students in West and Central Africa. Applications are now open for those wishing to study at institutions in Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, and Gabon. Launched in 2021, the Netflix Creative Equity Fund will be awarded to...
Ivory Coast: Voxafrica launches the first season of The Voice Kids Francophone Africa
After hosting the third season of the talent show The Voice Afrique in 2021, Côte d'Ivoire is now hosting the first season of The Voice Kids. The pan-African television channel Voxafrica has officially launched the French-speaking version of The Voice Afrique talent show dedicated to children. The channel's teams, led...
RFI launches the 8th edition of the RFI Talents du Rire Award
RFI launches the 8th edition of the "RFI Talents du Rire" award. Initiated by comedian Mamane, a columnist* on the international radio station, in collaboration with Gondwana-City Productions, this award has been showcasing new French-speaking comedy talent in Africa, the Indian Ocean, and the Caribbean since 2015. The winner, selected...
"Africa in Figures," the new magazine from TV5MONDE Afrique
TV5MONDE, the French-language channel, is broadcasting a new 15-episode economic magazine program called "L'Afrique en Chiffres" (Africa in Figures) exclusively on the web. The web magazine "L'Afrique en Chiffres" is a video module that addresses complex economic and social issues by presenting and analyzing key data from institutions as diverse...
SLASH beer, a new beer brand in Cameroon
Brasseries Samuel Foyou (Brasaf) is launching Slash beer, its first beer. Already present in the beverage market through its Krystal Drink brand of soft drinks, Brasaf is now tackling the highly competitive and concentrated beer market. Cameroon now has only three players following the acquisition of Guinness by SABC, which...
SABC acquires Guinness and consolidates its near-monopoly position in Cameroon
British brewer Diageo has announced the sale of Guinness Cameroon S.A. to Société Anonyme des Brasseries du Cameroun (SABC), the Cameroonian subsidiary of the Castel Group. SABC will now produce and distribute Guinness Cameroon S.A. (GCSA) beers, mixed alcohol, and malt beverages throughout Cameroon under brand licensing agreements. Guinness marketing...
Understanding the new digital terrestrial television frequency war in AFRICA
The issue of how to use the frequencies freed up by the implementation of DTT in Africa will soon take center stage in Africa, and it is beginning with an unexpected first episode. During the preparatory discussions for the 2023 World Radiocommunication Conference organized by the International Telecommunication Union and...
Opinion & Public BCW aims to transform PR through artificial intelligence
Transforming public relations through artificial intelligence? That is the ambition of Opinion & Public, a public relations agency based in Ivory Coast affiliated with the global BCW network and created in 2019 by Kwame Senou. Through this entity, he represents BCW in Ivory Coast, Guinea, Benin, and Liberia. Using artificial...