The subject of the 2020 edition is writer Maryse Condé. Born as Maryse Boucolon at Pointe-á-Pitre, Guadeloupe, on February 11, 1937, her parents sent her to study at Lycée Fénelon and Sorbonne in Paris, where she majored in English. In 1959, she married Mamadou Condé, a Guinean actor. After graduating, she taught in Guinea, Ghana
Behind the doors of many family homes, loving parents are shouldering the task of looking after children with disabilities. When will Nigeria provide adequate healthcare and educational facilities for its vulnerable and high-dependency population? What are the specific challenges that carers experience in an environment that is hostile to differences and sometimes devoid of empathy.
Yorùbá culture has spread into many creative fields and attracts artists, scholars and spiritual practitioners. This documentary portrays artists and their ways of working with the Òrìṣà: Filmmaker Uyiekpen Nosakhare Igbinedion, visual artist Mukhtara Yussuf, illustrator Abdulkareem Baba Aminu from Nigeria and the Brazilian artist D’Andrade talk about their relationship to the Òrìṣà and how
