Who’s having a Good Time in June 2012?
RITA DOMINIC
The Nigerian Nollywood superstar won Best Actress at the African Movie Academy Awards in April for her lead role in the Kenyan film Shattered. She plays a woman battling the effects of her traumatic childhood.
MATATA PONYO
After five months without a government, DRC President Joseph Kabila named his former finance minister as prime minister on 18 April. Ponyo, a survivor of the plane crash that killed Kabila’s ally Katumba Mwanke, is unlikely to be a heavyweight politician.
JETA AMATA
Nollywood-turned-Hollywood filmmaker Jeta Amata’s new film about the Niger Delta, Black November, was screened at an all-star event in Washington on 8 May, attended by the Clintons and a host of Nigerian governors. Next up, Cannes.
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