Keeping Films for Children and Youth in Focus
By Commonwealth Press Published November 16, 2019 Reigning Commonwealth Young Person of the Year has been named among 100 world rising stars who are shaping the future. Oluwaseun Ayodeji Osowobi, a Nigerian women’s rights activist, is one of 53 women…
By Commonwealth Secretariat Published August 29, 2019 Nominations have opened for the 2020 Commonwealth Youth Awards which will see winners awarded a cash grant to scale-up development work benefiting their communities. The Commonwealth Youth Awards recognise the exemplary work undertaken…
By Iminza Keboge Published July 19, 2019 A 26-year-old mid-wife has won the BBC News Somali Young Female Poet 2019 award. Kaltun Nasir Hussein, from Bur’o in the self-declared Republic of Somaliland, becomes the third person to win the award…
By Iminza Keboge Published June 21, 2019 Five Africans are among 15 individuals from around the world who have received prizes for their efforts in development. Each recipient of the Commonwealth’s Innovation for Sustainable Development Awards received a trophy, a…
By Iminza Keboge Published June 3, 2019 Collective Amnesia by Koleka Putuma of South Africa has beaten A Woman’s Body Is a Country by Nigerian Dami Ajayi and Kingdom of Gravity by Ugandan-born Nicholas Makoha to win the 2018 Glenna Luschei…
By Iminza Keboge Published May 28, 2019 BBC invites entries from Somali-speaking female poets for its 3rd BBC News Somali Young Female Poet of the Year award. Saying no previous experience is required, BBC says it welcomes original works of…
By Iminza Keboge Published April 27, 2019 A British film festival focusing on movies from Africa and its Diaspora is from 2019 going biennial. Film Africa, a project of The Royal African Society that says it has since its inception…
By Iminza Keboge Published December 18, 2018 A literary prize for children’s writers and illustrators from across Africa has announced the awards for the 2018 Golden Baobab Prize. The jury of the 10th Golden Baobab Prize says the 2018 Golden…
By Abdi Ali Published July 18, 2018 An 18-year-old girl has won the BBC News Somali Young Female Poet 2018 award. Shugri Jama Ibrahim, a form three Student from Bosaaso, has won the award with a poem that explores traditional…
By Khalifa Hemed Published July 3, 2018 The awards ceremony of the Africa Movie Academy Awards shall be held in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, on September 22, 2018. The organisers of the Lagos (Nigeria)-based AMAA that was first held in…