Mourad Teyeb

Oct 25, 2024 | africanarguments.org | Adama J Munu |Mourad Teyeb

In 2022, 31-year-old writer and director, Korede Azeez was one of six winners of the Netflix-UNESCO African Folktales Reimagined competition, a groundbreaking initiative that aimed to find some of the continent’s breakout filmmakers. She was the only West African Muslim woman to achieve this feat among six other finalists.

Apr 17, 2024 | africanarguments.org | Dounard Bondo |Mourad Teyeb

In January 2024, a Court of Appeal in Finland upheld the acquittal of Gibril Massaquoi on war crimes and crimes against humanity charges during the Second Liberian Civil War (1999 – 2003). Massaquoi, 54, and a Sierra Leonean by birth, is a former top-ranking member and spokesperson of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), the Sierra Leonean rebel group that reigned terror on civilians during that country’s civil war between 1991 and 2002.