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Cinema Nomad
Ghana
Season 1
Episode 105
We travel to Ghana, the first country in Sub Saharan Africa to gain independence. We visit Peter on the set of his fourth feature film. In Accra, we catch up with the voices shaping Ghana’s film industry: Juliet, a prominent filmmaker and festival director; Alpha, a passionate film scholar; and Carl, a documentarian interested in exploring the history of Ghana in his films.
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