Celebrate the diverse music and culture of Africa and the diaspora with a month-long film-festival on your screen presented by AfriDocs. During the month of February, AfriDocs’ 2 weekly documentary slots – now on Tuesday AND Thursday evenings, at 8pm Central African time (GMT + 2), and weekend schedules will feature some of Africa’s most loved musical talents – both historical and contemporary. Never before has such a collection of documentary films about African music been available to audiences across the continent.
From Morocco to South Africa, Cape Verde to Madagascar, documentaries featuring, SALIF KEITA, CESARIA EVORA, BI KIDUDE, ABDULLAH IBRAHIM, OLIVER MTUKUDZI, BOB MARLEY, OMAR SOSA, SISTER FA, SPOEK MATHAMBO as well as stories from the Malian Festival Au Desert, and Paul Simon’s Graceland, to the history of punk in Africa – the AfriDocs African Music Film Month is unmissable television.
Presented in conjunction with Zanzibar’s annual Sauti za Busara Music Festival, taking place from Feb 12th – 15th, this month long musical extravaganza celebrates the music of Africa and its diaspora – discover the music and culture of Kenya, Zanzibar, Nigeria, South Africa, Mali, Senegal, Cape Verde, Morocco, Ghana, Angola and beyond only on DStv 190 ED channel and GO TV.
Visit www.afridocs.net or www.facebook.com/AfriDocs to stay up to date with screening schedules, media interviews, twitter chats and more!