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May 27, 2007

ian kerkhof inaugurated into the africa hall of fame

Filed under: ian kerkhof, 1995 - nice to meet you, please don't rape me! — ABRAXAS @ 12:54 pm

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African Greats life stories and achievements will be featured continuously in the Africa Hall of Fame Institution and each year a small number of these African Greats will be inducted into the AHOF as Africa Hall of Famers.

Film and T.V.

Ali Mazrui - Kenya; scholar, moderator of 1986 BBC TV series, The Africans
Amanda Strydom - South Africa; actress, cabaret performer, and singer
Anant Singh - South Africa; producer, Mr Bones, country’s highest-ever grossing film
Arnold Vosloo - South Africa; actor, Mummy, Mummy Returns, 24 season four

Basil Rathbone - South Africa; 1930s, 1940s Hollywood actor, Sherlock Holmes

Charlize Theron - South Africa; actress, winner of the 2003 Best Actress Academy award for Monster

Dani Kouyaté - Burkina-Faso; film maker, 2002 Sia, le rêve du python
David Lister - South Africa; film maker, creator of comedy Soweto Green (1963)
Djibril Diop Mambety - Senegal; filmmaker, Touki Bouki, (1989)

Gaston Kabore - Burkina Faso; film maker, Buud Yam

Haile Gerima - Ethiopia; filmmaker, of slavery-themed film Sankofa
Henry Cele - South Africa; actor, acted as Shaka Zulu in film of the same name

Ian Kerkhof - South Africa; film director, Nice to meet you, please don’t rape me!

Jean-Marie Teno - Cameroon; film maker, Aristotle’s Plot (1996)
John Kani - South Africa; theatre producer, also film producer Sarafina!, 1992
Joseph Henri - Gabon; film maker, Le Singe Fou

Ken Gampu - South Africa; actor, as witch doctor in TV series Black Velvet Band

Leon Schuster - South Africa; lead actor in hit film Mr Bones

Med Hondo - Mauritania; Senegalese father, filmmaker, Les Ambassadeurs, (1976)
Merzak Allouache - Algeria; film maker, Salut Cousin (1996)
Mohamed Camara - Guinea; film maker, Dakan (1996)
Moufida Tlatli - Tunisia; Arab woman film director, 1994 The Silences Of The Palace

N!xau - South Africa; actor in 1981 comedy film The Gods must be crazy
Nacer Khemir - Tunisia; director, actor, screen writer, Tawk al hamama al mafkoud

Omar Sharif - Egypt; actor, born Michael Shalhoub, took lead role in film Dr Zhivago
Ousmane Sembene - Senegal; film director and author of novel, God’s Bits Of Wood

Safi Faye - Senegal; film maker, Mossane (1996)

Tunde Adebimpe - Nigeria; Hollywood actor

Vusi Kunene - South Africa; TV actor, (2001) Diamond Hunters, Final Solution

this list was first published here

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