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Tomorrow in Turin: Lao Kouyate plays his Kora

Lao Kouyate will play his Kora tomorrow in Turin (Italy) in “Taverna dei mercanti”.

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Interview with Anthony Suez – video

Former detainee in Robben Island (South Africa), Anthony Suez was interviewed during the recently ended African Film Festival in Milan (Italy) by reporter Ewanfoh Obehi Peter. “Soccer meant a way of life for the political prisoners on Robben Island”, Suez said after the movie ‘More than just a game’.

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FCAAAL: photos of the festival in Milano

Photos by Africanews.it journalists: Araceli Sanz Rincon, Elena Morillo Gasco’ and Ewanfoh Obehi Peter For the entire photo album on Picasa, click here

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FCAAL: interview with Anthony Suze in Milan

In this interview, former political detainee in South Africa during the apartheid regime, Anthony Suze, stress why football was more than a game. The interview is followed by a report on the African film festival in Milan.

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FCAAL Milan: Dowaha/La berceuse best African film

Dowaha/La berceuse, by Tunisian director Raja Amari, has won the 20th edition of the African film festival  in Milan (Italy) as ‘best African film’. Although the festival has ended today, prize celebrations have been held yesterday, saturday 20 of March. Other winning movies are Un conte des faits, directed by Hichem Ben Ammar, selected as “best […]

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Milan African film festival: "more than just a game" interview

“More than just a game” is a movie about the story of Anthony Suez, political prisoner in Robben Island, during the apartheid regime in South Africa. Our journalists interviewed Suez today. The video interview will be published in the following days. For the trailer of the movie, click here

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Al Mosafer, Ahmed Maher interview

Interview to Ahmed Maher at the 66th Venice Film Festival. His film Al Mosafer is also in Africa Movie Film Festival in Milan, Italy

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South Africa: Zuma's new book

“Critical Challenges” (HSRC Press) edited by Dr Kwandiwe Kondlo and Mashupye H Maserumule. Jacob Zuma’s private life, his wives, concubines and 20 children, have been the subject of wide media coverage in the last few weeks. In spite of promising to behave, at the Polokwane conference, at which he ousted Thabo Mbeki as president of […]

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Miriam Makeba Tribute: all photos

We publish here all the photos of the Miriam Makeba Tribute held in Rome (Italy) last Saturday 13 March 2010

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"Un transport en commun" – filmfest Milan

Director Dyana Gaye has released an interview at the Dubai film festival saying that she hates the stereotype about the problems as being woman and black in the film industry. “It was not really so for me”, she said. For sure one must believe in her own skills, she added.

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