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Ugandan filmmakers continue long walk to recognition
April 20, 2021
The local film industry, like the entire art industry, is one that has self-established.
From the not-so-old days when The Ebonies wowed with productions such as That’s Life Mwattu, Bibaawo and Ekitoobero A La Carte, to filmmakers such as Osman Matovu with their audience-grippers such as Ngudde Mu Nsobi and Ensisikano Y’ebizibu, it is an industry that has been discovering itself.
Much as it felt like a new idea of Ugandans making their own films, the faces in the films were not new. For instance, most of the actors, writers and directors were people that had cut their teeth on the theatre stage.
Ray Blue JazZ Trio Presented By Bethel Jazz at La Zingara Restaurant Written by BethelJazz
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Kenyan animators win big at Kwetu film fete KEVIN ROTICH Easter weekend was a time for binging on online animated films that were shown for free during the Kwetu International Animation Film Festival (KIAFF). For two days straight, April 2-3, the public had a chance to watch dozens of animated films, many of which were focused on Africa-related topics by African animators. Featuring everything from full-length feature animations and children’s cartoons to TV commercials, film shorts, and original films by African animators, the theme of the festival was ‘Between Art and Reality’. Launched late last year by Tanzanian filmmaker Daniel Nyalusi, former CEO and manager of the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF), the inaugural festival ran from April 1 through 3 with 48 hours-worth of nonstop animated films being shown to viewers watching from all over the world. “We screened 50 animated films out of the more than 1,660 submitted,” says Festival manage
Kenyan writer soars to greater heights abroad by Justus Kizito Siboe Makokha
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor is one of the finest Kenyan novelists alive today. The 52-year-old prose writer won the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature in 2015 for her epic novel,
Dust. This is the highest award a writer can gain in Kenya today. Instituted 46 years ago, the list of authors who have won this coveted national prize since the 1970s reads like a gallery of Kenya’s finest writers.
These include Meja Mwangi, Abdilatif Abdalla, Wahome Mutahi, David Maillu, Margaret Ogola, Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye, Kyallo Wamitila, Ken Walibora and my contemporary Stan Gazemba. The revered surgeon Yusuf Dawood and bespectacled Henry Ole Kulet are present in this hall of fame, too.