During the 1980s and 1990s, Ghanaian artists created vibrant hand-painted movie posters to promote Hollywood blockbuster films. These posters served as promotional material for mobile cinemas that ...

Movie poster designs sometimes feature some amazing art. And despite globalisation they can still vary very wildly around the world. Sometimes poster designs are done locally to ensure maximum local ...

Will the wonders of the internet never cease? When I was a kid in London in the early ’00s, I was lucky enough to experience great cinema from around the world. I had a particular fondness for some of ...

Nigerian actor Alex Cross impressed Ghanaians by speaking Twi with Obaapa Christy on a movie set in Ghana, showcasing ...

But necessity is the mother of invention, a truism that, in Ghana, resulted in some of the most inventive movie posters ever. Staring in the 1980s, in remote Ghanaian villages, films circulated ...

In the 1986 film “Cobra,” Sylvester Stallone plays a cop nicknamed Cobra. There is no actual snake in the movie. That didn’t stop an artist, painting an African movie poster for “Cobra,” from ...

Mobile cinema businesses became wildly popular in Ghana in the 1980s and 1990s. As a way to attract viewers, proprietors commissioned local artists to paint film posters with creative license. Twitter ...

The government of Ghana has launched a Film Fund in the 2026 budget to revive the local film industry, including the Kumawood scene, which ...

Ghanaian filmmaker Beverly Afaglo has lamented the lack of financial support from banks and corporate institutions towards ...

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Ghanaian kumawood actor Kwadwo Nkansah Lil win for his role in the movie “Captain Ibrahim Troare”, has won Best Actor for the ...