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Film Industry: Clémentine Célarié, Lucien Jean-Baptiste, and Richard Sammel Headline the 8th Edition of the “L’Afrique Fait Son Cinéma” Festival

From November 5 to 14, 2026, the EICAR Paris campus will host the 8th edition of the international film festival L’Afrique Fait Son Cinéma. By appointing Clémentine Célarié and Lucien Jean-Baptiste as Official Patrons, and international actor Richard Sammel as Jury President, the General Delegation led by Blaise Pascal Tanguy affirms the economic and global...

Dubbing: how Nigerian films crossed the language border

Nollywood dubbed into French conquered francophone Africa two decades ago. The traffic is only now starting to move the other way. Dubbing is the cheapest cultural export policy nobody funds. Anyone who watched television in Douala, Abidjan or Kinshasa in the 2000s remembers Nigerian films speaking French with a handful of recognisable voices. Dubbing turned...

Mobile first: the set is no longer the screen

Across Central Africa, more people watch video on a phone than on a television set. Broadcasters still sell advertising as if the opposite were true. The television business in the region was built on an assumption: a household, a set, an evening audience. That assumption is dissolving. Data costs are falling slowly, smartphones spread quickly,...

After the streamers: Nollywood’s YouTube turn

Global platforms arrived in Nigeria with commissioning budgets, then pulled back. African producers rebuilt on the platform that never left: YouTube. For a few years, streaming money transformed African screen production. Netflix commissioned Nigerian originals, Prime Video followed, and budgets, salaries and ambitions rose. Then the global streaming business turned to profitability. Prime Video stopped...

Collywood: making films in a conflict zone

Cameroon’s English-language film industry grew up in Buea, at the foot of Mount Cameroon. Then the region became a war zone. The films kept coming, from elsewhere. Long before streaming, a generation of Anglophone Cameroonian filmmakers built an industry around Buea, in the South-West region. It borrowed the naming convention of Hollywood and Nollywood and...

Three years of the Grammys’ African category, and Central Africa is still missing

The Recording Academy created a Best African Music Performance award. Its winners so far have come from South Africa and Nigeria. The gap says less about talent than about infrastructure. The category was introduced for the 2024 ceremony. The first award went to a South African artist for a song that had already conquered global...