AUDIO: Film confronts marriage by abduction

Nigerian film producer Femi Odugbemi discusses the country's growing film industry.

Monday was a special day at ZIFF 2015, with a unique and memorable day of film and music in perfect harmony.

The Oscar Pistorius trial has grabbed global headlines, but in South Africa it has forced some to face up to uncomfortable truths about issues such as domestic violence and people arming themselves.

Stone Town, Zanzibar — A documentary on voluntary male circumcision (VMMC) in Tanzania premiered at the 2014 Zanzibar International Film Festival on Sunday. The short film showcased how Tanzania is successfully scaling up VMMC services, with the potential to avert more than 3 million future HIV infections in the country.  The film was funded by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).  Produced by...

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 Monday was a special day at ZIFF 2015, with a unique and memorable day of film and music in perfect harmony. July 20th saw the screening of the Moussa Diallo biopic, Sound Tracks of Life Moussa Diallo – followed by a live performance from Moussa Diallo himself. The film screening was introduced by Diallo himself, and filmmaker Helle Toft, who elaborated on the personal yet universal themes in the film; reconciliation and forgiveness. Diallo’s story may be unique, having left Mali at age 17...

Reports emerge of a new mass abduction in north-eastern Nigeria, suspected to have been carried out by Islamist militants Boko Haram.

With due respect to Pastor Martin Niemoller (1892-1984) about the cowardice of German intellectuals in the aftermath of the rise of the Nazis to power and the ease with which they took away their chosen targets, group after group

Scores of girls are abducted in an attack on a girls' school in Borno state in north-eastern Nigeria, parents say.