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The International Day of the African Child, [1] also known as the Day of the African Child (DAC), [2] [3] has been celebrated on June 16 every year since 1991, when it was first initiated by the OAU Organisation of African Unity. [1] It honors those who participated in the Soweto Uprising in 1976 on that day.
The African Child (French: L'Enfant noir) is an autobiographical French novel by Camara Laye published in 1953. [1] It tells the story of a young African child, Baba, growing up in Guinea . The novel won the Prix Charles Veillon writing prize.
AFDA has won the Best Student Film award at the South African Film and Television Awards ten times and in 2006 became the first, and to this day, only African film to have won the annual Student Academy Awards (SAA) presented by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Daniel Etim Effiong, Nollywood actor and filmmaker, AFDA alumnus
The Igbo-language epic film received nine 2024 Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) nominations. The 18th South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTAs) took place October 25th and 26th. Shaka iLembe, the 2023 TV series retelling of the Shaka, the iconic Zulu King, picked up 12 awards, including for Best TV drama, the most of any nominee.
The Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Film by an African Living Abroad was an annual merit by the Africa Film Academy to reward the African filmmakers in the diaspora. The category was introduced in 2008 as Best Film African Diaspora and was cancelled after the 9th Africa Movie Academy Awards. [1]
Film Subject(s) Lead actor or actress 1990: An Angel at My Table: Janet Frame: Karen Fergusson (child), Alexia Keogh (adolescent) and Kerry Fox (adult) Awakenings: Oliver Sacks: Robin Williams: Bhim Garjana: B. R. Ambedkar: Krishnanand Call Me Anna: Anna Marie Duke: Patty Duke (older) Jenny Robertson (adult) Ari Meyers (youth) C.H. Spurgeon ...
African-American women and African-American gay and lesbian women have also made advances directing films, in Radha Blank's comic The 40-Year-Old Version (2020), Ava DuVernay's fanciful rendition of the children's classic A Wrinkle in Time [1] [59] or Angela Robinson's short film D.E.B.S. (2003) turned feature-length adaptation in 2004.
The Dictionary of African Biography is a six-volume biographical dictionary, published by Oxford University Press. [1] Published in 2012, the editors-in-chief are Emmanuel K. Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., both of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute of Harvard University.