In its ruling, the court found that “the termination of the contract by Burkina was valid and justified in law”
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The NGO also questioned the military’s original motive for the operation
Inspired by the #MeToo movement, two actresses, Ivorian, Nadège Beausson-Diagne and Azata Soro of Burkina Faso, are calling for a similar movement in the African cinema industry.
A few days after its inauguration, the giant statue of Captain Thomas Sankara in Ouagadougou is covered with a veil, following the controversy over the lack of similarity of the work with the father of the Burkinabe revolution.
Sankara is immortalized along with the busts of 12 of his comrades who were also murdered in the 1987 coup
The 2019 Fespaco was also marked by allegations of sexual abuse levelled against African filmmakers by actresses encouraged by the #MeToo movement.
the film uses a dead body that nobody wants to bury as the propeller for a satire on pen-pushers, hate-mongers, and humbugs.
“Desrances” is in competition with 19 other full-length movies for the so-called “African Oscar”
Some 100,000 people are expected to attend 450 screenings over the next week
150,000 children have been kept away from school