The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has launched a $1 billion Africa Film Fund to support the continent’s fast-growing but underfunded creative industry. The new initiative, part of Afreximbank’s Creative Africa …
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The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), through its impact investment subsidiary—the Fund for Export Development in Africa (FEDA)—has officially launched a $1 billion Africa Film Fund aimed at transforming the continent’s …