Many who have worked within African screen industries across Africa have long recognized the challenges of building sustainable sectors, even as 2024 seemed to bring these realities to wider attention. Certainly, subscribers to my platform, Akoroko Premium, would already be familiar.
The sobering truth is that what exists is a vastly uneven, fragmented landscape spread across dozens of countries.
This unevenness and fragmentation aren’t just a challenge—they are the defining characteristics of filmmaking across the continent. Yet, these crucial facts often get lost in the clamor of announcements—or, what I call “The Noise Dilemma.”
And 2024 certainly saw waves of announcements across infrastructure development, institutional frameworks, film financing, policy reform, and more. Still, beneath this surface of often high-profile proclamations are various currents, each moving at its own pace, as international interest intensifies.
As part of a series of 2024 recap newsletters received by subscribers, I explored challenges and opportunities for African screen industries in 2025, framed around four key questions—as the title suggests—that will be instrumental in measuring progress in the coming year and beyond.
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