The festival began 40 years ago, when a group of Burkinabe journalists attended the first World Festival of Black Arts in Senegal’s capital, Dakar. They were struck by the power of film as a means to convey post-independence Africa through African eyes and established the Pan-African Film and TV Festival of Ougadougou, also known as FESPACO.

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CAIRO, Egypt – Pulitzer-prize winning author Alice Walker, who wrote “The Color Purple,” is traveling to Gaza along with other female activists to highlight the devastation of the Israeli offensive on Gaza’s residents.

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