Anita Afonu
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93-year-old documentarian Chris Hesse—personal cinematographer to forgotten African icon Kwame Nkrumah—races against blindness and time to rescue and repatriate a secret trove of over 1,300 films that captured the birth of African independence in the fifties and sixties. Yet unseen by the public, these films may not only rewrite Ghanaian and African history—but world history itself.
The Eyes of Ghana

Perished Diamonds looks at Ghana's film industry from the post-colonial period and the controversial sale of the industry and what has become of Ghana's film industry today with testimonies from some of Ghana's veteran filmmakers
Perished Diamonds

African Maestro is a documentary on Professor J. H. Kwabena Nketia, the most published and best known authority on African music and aesthetics