SES opens new Africa office
23-MAY-12
SCREEN AFRICA EXCLUSIVE: Global satellite operator SES has opened an office in Johannesburg with newly appointed Africa head Ibrahima Guimba-Saidou at the helm. The office is situated at Montecasino and will complement two other SES offices in Africa – one in Ghana and another to be opened in an East African city yet to be confirmed.
Orange African Social Venture Prize
22-MAY-12
Armed with the success of the previous edition in 2011, mobile phone operator Orange, part of France Telecom, has launched the second edition of its Orange African Social Venture Prize. The goal is to promote social innovation in Africa that supports development through Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
African content on American network
18-MAY-12
Africa’s A24 Media and MHz Networks (US) have announced a new partnership where the latter will feature news shorts from A24, Africa’s first online delivery site for material from journalists, African broadcasters and NGOs from around the continent.
Mobile weather service for Ugandan fishermen
11-MAY-12
A unique partnership combining mobile technology, weather forecasting and local know-how is providing a localised weather alert service to fishing villages on Lake Victoria, Uganda. The partnership involves the Uganda Department of Meteorology (UDoM), World Meteorological Organization (WMO), South African mobile telecommunications company MTN, Ericsson, National Lake Rescue Institute (NLRI) and the Kalangala Fishing community.
Hindi content in East Africa
15-MAY-12
Zuku, the East African three-in-one service provider, has signed a deal with Pamoja Telcom to launch Hindi- language comedy channel SAB TV on its cable and DTH service. With over 100,000 Asians in Kenya alone there is real demand for Hindi programming, something that Zuku is keen to address with this latest deal, which follows on from the Zee and Star deals which made Indian programming widely available in the region for the first time.
East African business sector grows
09-MAY-12
In a recent report conducted and released by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, East Africa’s business sector has shown a positive improvement between 2010 and 2011, with further improvement expected in the forthcoming years leading up to 2030.
AiM 2012 call for entries
09-MAY-12
Africa in Motion (AiM), one of the UK's largest African film festivals, now in its seventh year of existence, is currently accepting submissions - features, documentaries and shorts - for its 2012 festival edition, which takes place from 25 October to 2 November at Filmhouse Cinema in Edinburgh, under the theme Modern Africa.
PAMRO final call for papers
04-MAY-12
The organisers of the PAMRO (Pan African Media Research Organisation) 2012 Conference, which takes place from 26 to 29 August at the Speke Resort & Convention Centre, Lake Victoria, Uganda, have issued a final call for papers for this 14th edition. All those interested in presenting papers that tie in with the conference theme - “From Local to Global: Media Research in a Developing World” – are urged to forward their proposals to PAMRO as soon as possible.
Bridging the digital divide
02-MAY-12
The Intel Learning Series Alliance in partnership with Jasco, Custom Technologies and the Xavier Group have delivered a completely solar powered ‘Classroom on Wheels’ to Victorious Primary School in Uganda.
First Nollywood Movies Awards
02-MAY-12
Created to celebrate excellence in Nigeria’s Nollywood film industry, the inaugural Nollywood Movies Awards (NMA) are set to take place on Saturday, 2 June 2012 at the Civic Centre in Lagos, Nigeria. The event will be hosted by Julius D Genius Agwu and Kate Henshaw.
Satin Rouge screens in Windhoek
02-MAY-12
AfricAvenir and the Franco Namibian Cultural Centre (FNCC) present the Namibian premiere of the 2002 Tunisian film, Satin Rouge, from director-screenwriter Raja Amari on 16 May at 6.30pm. The screening, which is courtesy of the Institut Francaise, takes place at the FNCC, 118 Robert Mugabe Avenue and entrance is free.
Visual Unity / Telemedia Africa joint venture
25-APR-12
Leading international system integrator and multiscreen platform provider Visual Unity has entered into a joint venture with Telemedia Africa to establish Visual Unity Africa. The company, based in Nairobi, Kenya, offers system integration and professional services to the local broadcast, IT and telecommunications industries, along with specialist R&D capabilities to develop innovative Mobile Applications for the triple play space.
Inkaba extends reach to Africa
24-APR-12
South African local content pay-TV channel Mzansi Magic has announced that the channel’s first telenovela Inkaba is now available to audiences in Sub-Saharan Africa, including countries such as Angola, Botswana, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Mozambique and Uganda.
BE.BOP 2012 screening in Windhoek
18-APR-12
AfricAvenir and the National Arts Gallery of Namibia present BE.BOP 2012- Black Europe Body Politics, an international screening programme and transdisciplinary roundtable centered on Black European citizenship in connection to recent moving image and performative practices.
New film exposes appalling crime
05-MAR-12
A new Zimbabwean feature film explores a shocking topic – the rape of males by female gangs.
Focus on South Sudan films
05-MAR-12
It’s encouraging to hear about vibrant filmic activity in war ravaged South Sudan. Martin Chemhere reports on a grass roots arts organisation that is building the local industry.
Contemporary African cinema under spotlight
10-APR-12
The African Studies Association UK 2012 Conference, which takes place in Leeds, UK from 6 to 8 September, is calling for papers. The themes are new innovations in genres, themes, production and distribution in contemporary African cinema.
A24 Media partners with NBS News
10-APR-12
A24 Media, producer of the long-running pan-African news magazine programme, Africa Journal, has entered into a new partnership with NBS News in India.
Roaming free
10-APR-12
Customers of mobile phone operator Vodacom Tanzania can expect huge roaming savings when travelling to nine African countries where Vodacom and its various partners operate. These countries include South Africa (Vodacom), Mozambique (Vodacom), Lesotho (Vodacom), DRC Congo (Vodacom), Ghana (Vodafone), Kenya (Safaricom), Rwanda (MTN), Uganda (MTN), Uganda (UTL) and Burundi (UCOM).
Malawi music adventure on film
04-APR-12
Martin Chemhere writes…Kuyimba Africa, a 10-minute short film described as ‘a journal of sights and sounds in Malawi’ as experienced by Cape Town-based indie music group Holiday Murray was shot on a Canon 5D Mark II.
