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Nollywood鈥檚 Coronavirus intermission

Studios shut, premiers paused: Nigeria鈥檚 film industry cliff-hanger.

Nollywood, the Nigerian film industry, is famous for high productivity, addictive plots and glamorous premiers. Princess Abumere in 大象传媒 Lagos has been to a few premiers herself, and has been finding out how Nollywood is adapting to the Covid-19 shutdown.

Tongue Twisters revisited
Fun and epic fails from the Fifth Floor teams trying to get their tongues round some fiendish tongue twisters.

Black Lives Matter in Tunisia
鈥淚 can鈥檛 breathe鈥 was chanted by crowds in the Tunisian capital after the killing of African-American George Floyd in the USA. It鈥檚 part of the black community鈥檚 response to racism and lack of opportunities for the minority black population of the country. Nora Fakim has been following the story for 大象传媒 Africa.

Cape Verde, or Highway 10
Cape Verde found itself in the headlines when a controversial Colombian businessman Alex Saab was detained there charged by the US with money laundering. 大象传媒 Afrique reporter, and Cape Verdean, Anne-Marie Dias Borges, sheds light on the islands' strategic position in many trans-Atlantic dealings.

Russia on a bike
大象传媒 Russian journalist Oleg Boldyrev took a novel approach to gathering local opinions ahead of this week's Russian referendum. He got on his bike and set off on a week's odyssey along the rural byways. It was a bone shaking experience.

Photo: Actor and television presenter Ada Afoluwake Ogunkeye AKA Folu Storms
Credit: Damilola Oduolowu-大象传媒

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