'Vrai Bail' · Bromzé · Amaza
More soon about Jambulance Records!
09/11/2025
PALESTINE 36
PALESTINE 36 | Official UK Trailer
The historical epic, directed by Annemarie Jacir, is Palestine's official submission to the Academy Awards, and is being released in the UK and Ireland on 31 October.
08/11/2025
FFFA - night one
I was at the opening night of the French-Arab Film Festival de Noisy-le-Sec (FFFA or Festival du Film Franco-Arabe en français), tonight, and they showed a beautiful and powerful film...
Here are the main guests for this year, Costa Gavras and Hind Meddeb, on stage.
The film, THE PRESIDENT'S CAKE, directed by Hasan Hadi (Iraq, United States, Qatar • 2025) starring Baneen Ahmad Nayyef, Sajad Mohamad Qasem, Waheed Thabet Khreibat, was selected for the 2025 Filmmakers' Fortnight / Quinzaine 2025 at the Cannes Festival this year.
The pitch: In Saddam Hussein's Iraq, 9-year-old Lamia is given the daunting task of baking a cake to celebrate the president's birthday. Her quest for ingredients, accompanied by her friend Saeed, turns her life upside down....
The film is so real, and first funny, heartwarming, following the daily life of two children living under Saddam's crazy dictatorship... before facing the tragedies of an era under attack and war...
An insight, with the trailer here:
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FFFA - Festival du Film Franco-Arabe de Noisy-le-Sec - Ed° 2025 - Résumé de la soirée d'ouverture avec Hind Meddeb et Costa Gavras
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I love this festival and this year is full of treasure.
More in my next podcast episode, next week.
The whole programme here: https://cinematrianon.fr/festivals/festival-du-film-franco-arabe
07/11/2025
Dakar Circle 2025
Zikora presents... the Dakar Circle!
A cultural event in Dakar, Senegal, scheduled for December 13, 2025.
The gathering will bring together top leaders, student representatives, artists, and cultural voices for meaningful dialogue and performances.
Event Highlights:
Organiser: Mamy Hawa Fall, a talented Dakar-based creative Venue: Kohi Artist Studio
Themes: Art, leadership, and community connection
Confirmed discussion topics: 1. Is Feminism African? 2. Humans and Nature
Guests: Top leaders, student unions, artists, and cultural figures
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If interested, email:
Zikora Media <info@zikoramedia.com>
05/11/2025
02/11/2025
Angélique Kidjo - 'Chica de Favela'
Interview to com soon in my podcast!
Beyond Music & Angélique Kidjo - Chica de Favela
(ft Pesa Bazz, Siddhartha El Primero, Shocktraderz)
31/10/2025
30/10/2025
Chocolate making in Cote d'Ivoire
Chocolate making in Cote d'Ivoire • RFI English
Côte d’Ivoire, one of Africa’s most dynamic economies, is best known for its coffee and cocoa production. Yet for decades, Ivorians rarely tasted chocolate made from their own crops.
Determined to change that, entrepreneur Axel Emmanuel Gbaou founded ten years ago the brand 'Le Chocolatier Ivoirien', the ‘Ivorian chocolate maker’.
He is new selling thousands of chocolate bars per month locally, including his latest, Kimbo, the $1 bar.
My report in video:
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Article to come.
29/10/2025
Western celebrities and 'white saviourism'
I really agree...
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| The story by our reporter Aisha Down last week was a warning of a new era of “poverty porn” as leading aid agencies were found to be using AI-generated images to promote public sympathy for their causes. Arsenii Alenichev, a researcher into the production of global health images at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, told the Guardian: “The images replicate the visual grammar of poverty – children with empty plates, cracked earth, stereotypical visuals.” That delicate line between raising awareness and entrenching stereotypes popped into my inbox a few days later in the shape of an email from the Unicef media office looking for coverage of a visit by the Northern Irish actor Liam Neeson to South Sudan. That Neeson, one of a stable of Unicef goodwill ambassadors that includes David Beckham, cared enough to give up his time to meet children suffering from malnutrition in an inhospitable place is not in question. The UN agency is not alone in using the tactic of sending celebrities from the northern hemisphere to bring attention to issues in the global south, but is it really the right message? For me it edges uncomfortably close to “white saviourism”, and shows we are far away from decolonising the humanitarian community’s approach to aid and the people who need it. Clearly there is an argument to the contrary, but I have never seen any measure of whether this approach does more good than harm. Take the recent visit of a British royal, the Duchess of Edinburgh, to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Media coverage of the visit of Sophie – wife of the king’s brother Edward – did cover the horrific rates of rape in the country where sexual violence continues to be very much used as a weapon of war, but also focused intently on just how brave she was. “Secret”, “high security”, “high risk”, a “royal first”– hammered down on the stereotype of the dark frightening place that is the African continent where people must find it an honour to be visited by a great white lady. No matter that it is the great white lady’s imperial family who helped reduce the DRC to its current state, surely an international audience can be trusted to understand the issues without the caravans of unqualified, privileged western celebrities standing in front of the camera in freshly pressed linen shirts? Tracy McVeigh, editor, Global development - Also we should add: Sending high profile celebrities and even head of programme of these charities and UN agencies... It cost a small fortune!! Money taken from donors' gifts and crucial donations for local people. So let's stop this mascarade only feeding the stereotype that these figures are needed... They're not, really not. |
28/10/2025
Newsletter: Aftermath of an election
Aftermath of an election
From Côte d'Ivoire to Cameroon, Argentina to the Netherlands, democracy is currently challenged... But this can also teach people to focus on long term goals and hope, like these people in Abidjan.
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Aftermath of an election
From Côte d'Ivoire to Cameroon, Argentina to the Netherlands, democracy is currently challenged... But this can also teach people to focus on long term goals and hope, like these people in Abidjan.
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