"Originally founded by Prof. Dieter Riemenschneider in the 1970s and now directed by Prof. Frank Schulze-Engler, the department is dedicated to teaching and research in the area of anglophone literatures in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific as well as Black and Asian Literature in Britain." The website offers information on conferences, research projects, a reading list and more. [according to site editor’s information] ... [supplemented]
The Silicon Valley African Film Festival (SVAFF) promotes an understanding and appreciation of Africa and Africans through moving images. Aptly themed “Africa through the African lens”, it is the only film festival in California that is exclusively focused on films made by African filmmakers and, crucially, provides audiences with exquisite lenses to the real Africa [according to the site editor's information, editorial staff ilissAfrica]....
The author of this blog is a PhD Candidate in the Department of African Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is currently doing her dissertation research on Hausa films in Kano, Nigeria.Hence, the focus of her personal blog also is on film, music and arts in general in the Hausa region of Northern Nigeria. Furthermore, you will find a lot of interesting links to other blogs with the same regional focus and topics. ... [editors ilissAfrica]
"The Hausa Home Video Resource Centre is an initiative of the Department of Mass Communication at Bayero University in Kano, Nigeria. It was founded with the aim to provide access to information about the Hausa film industry for researchers, journalists, and the general public and to provide useful resources for practitioners in the industry. It is currently being coordinated by Carmen McCain, a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a visiting scholar in the Department of Mass Communications at Bayero UniversityIn the next few months, we hope to provide access to archived newspaper articles about the Hausa film industry, updates on resources for Hausa film practitioners, and summaries of Hausa films for the general public." ... [according to site editor’s information]
The Nollywood and African Film Critics’ Awards also known by the press as the African Oscars or the NAFCA was founded in 2011 which is the most prestigious film, honorary and people’s choice awards in Hollywood by an African organization.The mission for the NAFCA has been to improve the African cinema by connecting Africa to the rest of the world [according to the site editor's information, editorial staff, ilissAfrica]....
ArtMattan Productions distributes films that focus on the human experience of black people in Africa, the Caribbean, North and South America and Europe. All these films were shown during the organisation's annual African Diaspora Film Festival in New York [according to the site editor's information, editorial staff ilissAfrica].
Africana Age is an American Website, created by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York. It provides essays, images and multimedia data about colonial Africa, the Decolonialisation process and African Diasporas for example in the USA [according to the site editor's information, editorial staff ilissAfrica].
Movie database of the French TV channel TV5 Monde containing bibliographical data for African movies. You can search for movies or directors from specific countries, genres or years. [editors ilissAfrica]
The mission of Africa International House is to serve as a center that exposes and educates all peoples to the individual works and collective contributions of African cultures. Africa International House' mission is addressed through its flagship program, the African Festival of the Arts, and through other activities that promote African-based culture. Africa International House is an umbrella for linkages and exchanges of people from Africa and the African Diaspora [according to the site editor's information, editorial staff ilissAfrica]....