VIDEO: Film features plight of African park

CNN's African Voices highlights Africa's most engaging personalities. Recently, African Voices met Patrick Ngowi who founded his own solar power company in Tanzania at just 22 years.

Showtimes were: (all times GMT)  Friday: 0730 Saturday: 1430 Sunday: 0230, 0800, 1730 Monday: 0930, 1430 Tuesday: 0430
Click here to see the video interview,  courtesy of CNN's African Voices. For source CLICK HERE

My favourite film when I was 12: Jurassic Park  The Guardian

The Belgian director of the Democratic Republic of Congo's famous Virunga National Park is shot and critically wounded in an ambush.

The number of small-scale tobacco growers in Zimbabwe has risen by 80% since President Robert Mugabe's controversial farm seizures in 2000, but a lack of investment is holding farmers back.

The BBC has been to Niger, which has the highest rate of child marriage in the world with nearly 80% of girls there married by the age of 18.

Laeila Adjovi reports on the children of Togo who are trafficked or used as child labour.

Erin Levin is an award-winning storyteller. Her production and outreach experience ranges from ABC and CNN to the Peace Corps and non-profits around the world.

Tonight, Wednesday 24th of September at Alliance Française : we propose you two movies from Arusha African Film Festival!
19.00: Rites of Passage by Phillip Crawford - 80min – AustraliaEnglish language.
Synopsis
Rites of Passage is a feature length drama made collaboratively with a group of young people who dive below the surface of their often tough exteriors to reveal what’s going on inside.
More: http://ritesofpassagefilm.com.au/

8.50: Chizi Karogwa tena by Athmani Mtinda – 77min – Tanzania...

Rocky Mountain Collegian
CSU graduate student captures African social justice concerns through film
Rocky Mountain Collegian
Namuyaba Temanju is a ethnic studies graduate student at Colorado State University. Temanju proudly displays one of the grandmothers from her “Grandmother to Grandmother” video project she worked on in Tanzania. (Photo credit: Jillian Keller). Colorado ...