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Below is a continuously updated list of African film and television-related subjects that don’t have a Wikipedia page. Here editors can explore topics of interest to create an article. People can also add topics that they think require a Wikipedia entry. For those interested in an entry being created but are hindered from starting an article themselves because of a potential conflict of interest, this list is a good place to suggest the entry.

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Amin Bouhafa, Algerian Composer
  • Amin Bouhafa, Algerian composer whose credits include Timbuktu, for which he won a César, Tug of War, (Tanzania's 2023 submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film) and Under the Fig Trees (Tunisia's 2023 submission for Best International Feature). Bouafa has an entry on the French Wikipedia edition.

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  • Our Brothers is a 2022 Algerian film directed by Rachid Bouchareb and Algeria's submission for the 2023 Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.

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Angola

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  • Autumn Beat is an Amazon Prime movie by Italian-Angolan writer-director Antonio Dikele Distefano set to drop on November 10, 2022. It's a coming-of-age drama about two brothers who grew up in Milan and dream to break into the rap music world. Distefano is the creator of the 2021 Netflix original series “Zero” that marked Italy’s first show centered around the present-day lives of black Italian youth.

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Benin

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Botswana

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Burkina Faso

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  • Alex Moussa Sawadogo is a Burkinabe specializing in the programming of African films and in the creation and management of cultural projects. He has been the director of Fespaco since 2020.

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  • Twaaga is a 2013 Burkina Faso film directed by Cedric Ido screened at the 2014 Galway African Film Festival.

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Burundi

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Cabo Verde

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Cameroon

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Yann Gael, French-Cameroonian Actor

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Central African Republic

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Chad

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Comoros

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Congo Brazzaville

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Cote d’Ivoire

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Democratic Republic of Congo

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  • Rafiki Fariala is a Congolese-born director and musician whose freshman feature, the documentary We, Students! was the first feature from the Central African Republic to be screened at the Berlin International Film Festival. His follow up film, Congo Boy, is a drama inspired by his own story as a refugee in CAR. Drawing upon his story, “Congo Boy” tells the story of a teenage refugee from the Congo with musical ambitions, who is made responsible for his younger siblings in their new CAR home. Establishing himself first as a musician, Fariala’s documentary “We, Students!” was the first film from CAR to go to the Berlinale and its Panorama sidebar, screening this year

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Djibouti

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Egypt

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  • Gawwezni is a 2022 Egyptian comedy starring U.K.-Egyptian star Amir El-Masry who plays a man who falls madly in love but when a spell is cast on him cannot act on his feelings, leading to a series of comic situations. Released in cinemas in Egypt in early November 2022.
  • Kira and El Gin is a 2022 Egyptian action drama taking place during the 1919 Egyptian revolution and with the highest budget to date of any Egyptian film.

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Equatorial Guinea

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Eritrea

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Eswatini

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Ethiopia

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Gabon

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Gambia

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Ghana

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Mawuko Kuadzi, Casting Director for films such as Beasts of No Nation,'Black Earth Rising', Azali. The first West African member of the Casting Society of America (CSA), and first African to win the CSA's Artios Award for Best Commercial Casting.

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  • Film Directors Guild of Ghana (FDGG) is an association that represents the interest of film directors, television directors, television commercials directors, music video directors and all professions within the directorial department of motion picture or audiovisual works in Ghana.

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Guinea

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Kenya

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  • Andrew Kaggia is a Kenyan animator and the director of TeraStorm, a computer-animated science fiction film (2022) that was selected as Kenya's entry for Best International Film for the 95th Academy Awards, making it the first African animated film to be selected to compete for this award. It is also the first original African-scripted animated feature with African characters and context to be nominated for an Oscar.

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  • Fluorescent Sin, is a 2011 Kenyan short by director Amirah Tajdin. The Kenyan short movie screened at the 2013 Galway African Film Festival and 2019 Africa in Motion Film Festival.
  • Mvera, is a 2023 Kenyan feature film by Daudi Anguka. It was Kenya's official submission for the Oscars and premiered on Netflix in July 2024.

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  • Africa Digital Media Institute (ADMI) based in Nairobi, Kenya is a creative media and technology training institution, for film creatives. In 2022 it partnered with Netflix to offer the Netflix Creative Equity Scholarships.
  • Docubox a Kenya-based East African Documentary Fund that trains, mentors, and funds independent filmmakers in East Africa.

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Lesotho

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Liberia

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Libya

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Madagascar

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Malawi

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Mali

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Mauritania

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Morocco

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Mozambique

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Niger

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Martini Akande is a Nigerian Film Editor of 11 feature films including Gangs of Lagos (2023), Brotherhood (2022), and Glamour Girls (2022). Nominated in the Best Picture Editor category for Brotherhood at the 9th edition of Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards (AMVCA).

Afolabi Olalekan is a Nigerian film editor and director. He was editor of A Ghetto Love Story (2024), a commercial and critical success. He was also the editor of Freedom Way, his directorial debut which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2024.

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  • Moses Babatope is a Nigerian entertainment executive. He is the co-founder and Managing Director at FilmOne Entertainment, a film production and distribution company, and Group Deputy Managing Director of Filmhouse Group, the largest cinema chain in anglophone West Africa and one of the biggest in Africa.
  • Kene Mkparua is Group President and CEO of KOMWORLD a Nigerian & UK entertainment company that owns KOMWORLD Cinema and StudioKOM Production & Distribution.
  • Tambay Amadi Obenson is a Nigerian-born Los Angeles-based film critic, filmmaker, and entrepreneur. He founded Shadow and Act, a website dedicated to covering Black talent and entertainment across the television and film industries (acquired by Blavity) and in September 2022 launched a fundraising campaign for Aroko, an African cinema-focused online platform.

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  • Mistress of a Married Man is a Senegalese Television series (2019-present) by screenwriter Kalista Sy set in Dakar that caused a sensation and was controversial upon its release. The show focused on the lives of everyday women and storylines around sex, infidelity, domestic abuse, and polygamy, which are not usually covered in Senegalese media.
  • Sakho & Mangane is a Senegalese Television series created by Congolese director Jean Luc Herbulot entirely filmed in Dakar for Canal+ Afrique, with actors Yann Gael et Issaka Sawadogo.

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  • Nkateko Mabaso is a South African entertainment executive. He is currently Director of Licensing & Co-productions for Netflix Africa. His previous role was as Group Executive Programming for Multichoice.
  • Nomsa Philiso is a South African entertainment executive, currently the CEO of General Entertainment at South African entertainment company Multichoice Group.
  • Tendeka Matatu is an entertainment executive who has been serving as Netflix’s Director of Local Language Films for Africa since 2021, following a career as a director and producer and founder of Ten10 Entertainment.
  • Jackie Motsepe is a South African film executive who heads the Kwa Zulu Natal Film Commission
  • Monde Twala is a South African entertainment executive who is Senior Vice President & GM of ViacomCBS Networks Africa.

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  • MultiChoice Talent Factory
  • Realness Institute is comprised of 5 capacity building programs in the creative industry. The Institution caters to writers, producers, directors, programmers, sales & distribution professionals, episodic content creators and development executives. It was co-founded in 2015 by Elias Ribeiro.

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The Empty Grave (2024), directed by Amil Shivji. Distinctions include 2025 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards (AMVCA) nomination for Best Indigenous Language film - East Africa.

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  • Hamid Ibrahim is an animation production designer and creative director and co-founder of Kugali Media, the creator of the animated Disney series Iwaju.

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  • Tembele is 2022 Ugandan film and the country's submission for the 95th Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film.

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  • Pearlwood is the registered trademark for Uganda’s Film Industry established in 2018 and managed by a partnership of stakeholder Guilds: Actors Guild, Producers Guild, Exhibitors Guild, Cinematographers Guild, Writers Guild, and Editors Guild.

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Red Bag (2014) A comedy directed by Frank Sibbuku

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