Nigerian director wins Africa's top film prize
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Nigerian director Newton Aduaka  lifted the top prize at Africa's most prestigious film festival  for "Ezra," the tale of a child soldier who struggles to  readapt after Sierra Leone's civil war.
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Vishal has just received the prestigious award for 'Best Artistic Contribution in Cinema of a Director' for Omkara at the Cairo International Film Festival.
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Joaquim Chissano, the former president of the southern African country of Mozambique, won the first Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African leadership on Monday.
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Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi  Adichie was installed as hot favourite on Tuesday to land the  Orange Prize, a major literary award for fiction in English  written by women.
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Hotel Rwanda, a film about a man who saved 1,000 people from genocide, wins at Toronto Film Festival.
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Wangari Maathai of Kenya became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her work to promote democracy, protect the environment and improve social conditions.
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OSLO, Norway - Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her work as leader of the Green Belt Movement, which has sought to empower women, better the environment and fight corruption in Africa for almost 30 years.    Maathai, Kenya's deputy environment minister, is the first African woman to win the prize since it was first awarded in 1901...
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Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe won the 2007 Man Booker International Prize for fiction Wednesday
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First-time director Alejandro Gomez Monteverde wins the audience award at the Toronto Film Festival.
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The first Oscar nomination for a South African film will boost the burgeoning industry and grab the attention of Hollywood, the film's director said on Tuesday.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai  became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize  Friday for aiding the continent's poor with a campaign to plant  millions of trees to slow down deforestation.
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Nigeria&#39;s outgoing President Olusegun Obasanjo visited Liberia and Sierra Leone Saturday to receive top honours for his country&#39;s role in helping quell civil wars in the two west African states.
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The Nigerian film industry, known informally as Nollywood, produces thousands of films a year using low-budget digital video cameras and home computers. Two new films document the industry.
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A film tackling the issue of racism in south Wales has won a Bafta and 10,000 for director Amma Asante.
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Kenya's Wangari Maathai wins this year Nobel Peace Prize, the first African woman to do so.
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"Hotel Rwanda" and "Omagh" won the top  awards at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday as  audiences embraced movies inspired by the real life horrors of  genocide and civil conflict.
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Martin Scorsese won the Academy Award for best director on Sunday.