The CANAL+ Group is delighted to announce the launch of its first daily series under the CANAL+ORIGINAL label in French-speaking Africa: LE FUTUR EST À NOUS (The Future Belongs to Us). Starting September 5, CANAL+ subscribers will be able to watch this new series, aimed at family audiences, Monday through...
Ouagadougou hosts the first international short film festival
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...
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...
"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...
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...
Series of announcements during the CAF President's press conference
Patrice Motsepe, President of CAF, made several announcements during his latest press conference: In addition to postponing the Africa Cup of Nations to January 2024 and creating the Super Champions League, it was decided that the Champions League final will now be played over two legs. The 2022 African Super...
CANAL+ acquires ZACU entertainment
The CANAL+ group has announced the acquisition of Zacu Entertainment, Rwanda's leading producer and distributor of audiovisual content, further strengthening its development on the continent. With this acquisition, CANAL+ now has "more than 500 hours of new films and series produced each year and a catalog of 700 hours, all...
Africa Cup of Nations, an unexpected postponement for Ivory Coast
The Africa Cup of Nations (CAN), which was scheduled to take place in Ivory Coast in the summer of 2023, has been postponed to January/February 2024, Patrice Motsepe, president of the Confederation of African Football, announced on Sunday. A logical and expected decision. The president of the Confederation of African...