Burkina Faso

At the movies in Ouagadougou

_{Kenyan film director, Judy Kibinge recently visited Ouagadougou to attend and to present her film “The killer Necklace” at the Fespaco film festival. While there she discovers that the dust choked city is the undisputed film capital of Africa and its residents are simply possessed by the silver screen, a place that all African artists can go and have their belief in the future of art  and Africa renewed. "If you did not know " Judy says "no other festival in the world holds its opening and closing ceremony in a football stadium with a 35,000 person capacity."}

 _{Click here to read her experiences at the Fespaco film festival}

^{The issue of globalisation, which continues to overshadow matters relating to poverty, environment, development, immigration and integration, has also caught the attention of artists who give their share of views through their artistic creations. Indeed, a recent exhibition of photographs shot in Nepal, India, Bosnia, Vietnam, Nigeria, Angola, Sierra Leone, Liberia, France, Belgium and Iceland - that commented on various issues relating to globalisation - took place in the centre of Koudougou, Burkina Faso. Read more from John Owoo.}

^{A four-day seminar, organised and funded by Mundial Productions, a cultural outfit based in Tilburg Netherlands, that brought together several organisations and institutions from different countries with a common goal of contributing to the Millennium Development Goals(MDGs) through culture ended last week in the Burkinabe town of Koudougou.The seminar sought to find effective ways of building cultural entrepreneurship, artistic development and overall artists' collaboration as a development tool. Read more}