Kenya movie industry flourishes
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The dusty, lion-colored plains and snowy mountain peaks of East Africa have appeared in numerous Hollywood blockbusters. Now, Kenyans fed up with being the background for high-budget films about white people running around an African playground are telling their own stories.
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KITENGELA, Kenya  - A short distance from the slums and skyscrapers of Nairobi, Naanyu Ntirrisa pulls thorn bushes around her Maasai village to keep out marauding lions that have killed a cow and two sheep.
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Seeking to establish the medium as a mass market form of entertainment instead of a niche technology, the game industry has taken the playbook of the movie business.
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Moviegoers, flocking to sequels, break the summertime box-office record - and buoy a sagging industry.
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Safaricom, Kenya's biggest cell phone  firm, on Tuesday launched a money transfer service that will  use short message services, which it said was the first of its  kind in the world.
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Kenya's literary hero, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, is back with a tale of African ills cloaked in folklore magic
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The film industry is a rapidly growing sector for the local economy, contributing millions of pounds into the national economy whilst providing full-time as well as part-time employment for many Maltese people.
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Botswana welcomed a crew making a film of a popular series of detective novels set in this southern African country, with officials saying the movie would generate good publicity for Africa.
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The party of Kenya's opposition challenger Raila Odinga says he has won his country's presidential election.
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NAIROBI, Dec. 27 -- Waiting in hours-long lines and in some cases queuing up well before dawn, Kenyans streamed to the polls by the millions Thursday in what was shaping up to be the most open and competitive presidential election since the country gained independence from Britain in 1963.
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Quite a few production houses are venturing into this new industry.
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The biennial Fespaco film festival opens in Burkina  Faso, showcasing the best in African cinema.
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In Kenya, elections mean money. From cash to T-shirts to new roads, and the lucrative business of helping aspirants by fair means or foul, Christmas has come early in the east African nation.
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Filmmakers seeking new venues for their work are being sought out by the wireless industry as it looks west to Hollywood and east to Bollywood for ideas to keep subscribers entertained and their revenue flowing.
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There's no denying that the Overseas territory is amongst the most fruitful territory today, provided a film works at the box-office.
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Kenya Sunday launched an international conference aimed at working toward the eradication of land mines by the year 2009 with traditional African dances and songs.
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Kenya has met all economic conditions set by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which could result in the release of a delayed loan to the east African country, a visiting IMF mission announced here Friday.