Award-winning producer Akosua Adoma Owusu’s latest film On Monday of Last Week is one of eight nominated for Best Short Film from the African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA). Based on the short story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie of the same name, On Monday of Last Week tells the complicated story of a Nigerian woman named … Read more
‘On Monday of Last Week,’ a movie directed and produced by Filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu has earned a nomination at the 2017 Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA). The awards scheme honours and promotes excellence in the African movie industry as well as uniting the African continent through arts and culture The movie is contesting against ‘Bout’, ‘A Place … Read more
A leading African writer has transfixed the internet with her comments on gender – but fellow Nigerians say they feel hurt. Transgender women in Africa have benefited from “male privilege” because they grew up as men. With this argument, writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie kicked off a vexed discussion, trending everywhere from Facebook to Teen Vogue. … Read more
First ever African finalist at the Scripps Spelling Bee in the U. S., Afua Ansah, will join President Nana Akufo-Addo to light the perpetual flame at the Independence Square on March 6. This is part of the celebrations for the 60th independence anniversary of Ghana which will be marked with school children, military, and other … Read more