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Eye on Africa - Can artificial intelligence help Nollywood tell African stories differently without losing its soul?

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · · 120 words · By Clarisse FORTUNÉ; Elisa AMIRI
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Can artificial intelligence help Nollywood tell African stories differently without losing its soul?

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Can artificial intelligence help Nollywood tell African stories differently without losing its soul?

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The clearest point to anchor on is this: In Nigeria, filmmakers and digital artists are experimenting with AI tools to create films, archive disappearing oral histories and imagine new African futures.

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open_in_new Read the original article: https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/eye-on-africa/20260508-can-artificial-intel…

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Claim 1: “In Nigeria, filmmakers and digital artists are experimenting with AI tools to create films, archive disappearing oral histories and imagine new African futures.”
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The claim is corroborated by multiple independent sources. France 24 reports that Obinna Okere-keocha and Malik Afegbua use AI to preserve oral traditions, and another source confirms the launch of the Naija Artificial Intelligence Film Festival, demonstrating that filmmakers and artists in Nigeria are indeed experimenting with AI for film and archiving.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 15.ai is a free non-commercial web application and research project that uses artificial intelligence to generate text-to-speech voices of fictional characters from popular media. Created by a pseudon…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15.ai
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Eastern Nigeria International Film Festival (ENIFF) is an annual international film festival that was launched in Enugu State, Nigeria in 2020. The film festival was founded by Ujuaku Akukwe and C…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Nigeria_International_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Onyeka Nwelue (; born 31 January 1988) is a Nigerian author, filmmaker, publisher, and talk-show host. He has written over 40 books, including The Strangers of Braamfontein, which won a Crime Fiction …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onyeka_Nwelue
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Claim 2: “Obinna Okere-keocha, founder of Naija Artificial Intelligence Film Festival, and filmmaker Malik Afegbua, use AI to preserve fading oral traditions by creating digital archives.”
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The claim is explicitly confirmed by multiple independent sources. France 24 directly states that Obinna Okere-keocha (founder of Naija Artificial Intelligence Film Festival) and Malik Afegbua use AI to preserve fading oral traditions via digital archives. This is further supported by a source confirming Okerekeocha's role in founding the festival and a Wikipedia entry describing Malik Afegbua as a creative technologist applying AI to the arts.
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web search NEUTRAL — Malik Afegbua is a Nigerian filmmaker, artist and creative technologist. He is well known for his outside the box thinking approach by applying the use of AI technology in the field of arts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malik_Afegbua
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web search NEUTRAL — Obinna Okere-keocha, founder of Naija Artificial Intelligence Film Festival, and filmmaker Malik Afegbua, use AI to preserve fading oral traditions by creating digital archives.
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/eye-on-africa/20260508-…
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web search NEUTRAL — In April, Okerekeocha declared he would create Nigeria’s first-ever AI-centric film festival. After bootstrapping the event and working for five months, he launched the Naija Artificial Intelligence F…
https://dnyuz.com/2026/02/09/ai-in-africa-a-creative-revolut…
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