African storytelling is taking center stage once again — not just as entertainment, but as a powerful tool for identity, history, liberation, and global cultural connection.

On this edition of the Morning Show Conversation Segment, Afia TV spotlights the build-up to the 2026 Abibitumi Abibifahodie Film Festival, an international platform dedicated to celebrating authentic African stories, Black identity, cultural memory, and diaspora connection through film and creative expression.

Joining the conversation is Ọnụọra Abuah, Director of the Abibitumi Film Festival & Conference, as we explore the vision behind one of the most culturally significant African-centered film gatherings bringing together filmmakers, storytellers, scholars, creatives, and audiences from across the continent and the global African diaspora.

Organized by Abibitumi and the Decade of Our Repatriation (DOOR) initiative, the festival is more than a showcase of films — it is a movement rooted in reclaiming African narratives and strengthening connections between Africans on the continent and descendants of Africa across the world.

At a time when global media spaces are increasingly questioning representation, ownership of narratives, and cultural authenticity, the Abibitumi Abibifahodie Film Festival seeks to create a platform where African stories are told by Africans, for Africans, and with the fullness of African identity intact.This conversation examines the growing influence of African cinema, the importance of preserving indigenous stories, and the role film can play in reconnecting communities separated by history, migration, and the transatlantic slave trade.
What kinds of stories are shaping the 2026 edition?How is African cinema evolving beyond stereotypes and survival narratives?And why are festivals like this becoming increasingly important in the global cultural conversation?From heritage and spirituality to resistance, identity, language, migration, and liberation, the festival promises to spotlight films that challenge dominant narratives while celebrating the richness and complexity of African experiences.


As Nollywood, independent African cinema, and diaspora storytelling continue gaining international recognition, platforms like Abibitumi are helping redefine what global African storytelling can look like — bold, rooted, unapologetic, and deeply connected to history.This is more than film.It is memory, identity, culture, and connection projected onto the screen.#abibitumifilmfestival


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Our heroes are their enemies and their heroes are our enemies. Who decides which heroes we honor? Who decides what films we will watch? Who decides who we will look up to? Who decides whose statues stand on our campuses, whose stories are told on screen, and whose images shape the minds of our children?In this powerful conversation, Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé Bakari Kambon breaks down the politics of soft power, from the Gandhi Must Fall movement at the University of Ghana to the deeper question of why Black people must choose, honor, document, and project our own heroes.This discussion moves through statues, murals, film, Kmt, Nana Amanirenas, Nana Malcolm X, Nana Nat Turner, Nana Yaa Asantewaa, Nana Marcus Garvey, Nana Kwame Nkrumah, Nana Thomas Sankara, Nana Patrice Lumumba, Nana Harriet Tubman, Nana Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and the ongoing work of building institutions that tell our stories for ourselves.The message is clear: those who control images control minds. If we want our stories told truthfully, we must document our own grandmothers, grandfathers, artists, builders, freedom fighters, healers, teachers, and visionaries.Learn more about the mural project: https://www.abibitumi.com/traoreLearn more about repatriation support:https://www.r2gh.comWatch and upload Black-centered content:https://www.abibitumitv.comJoin the Abibitumi community:https://www.abibitumi.comTopics covered:Gandhi Must Fall, soft power, statues, Black heroes, Abibifahodie Film Festival, Ibrahim Traoré mural, Black storytelling, Kmt, Abibitumi, repatriation, documentaries, Ghana, Burkina Faso, cultural memory, and why we must give our people their flowers while they are still here.Hashtags:#abibitumi #blackpower #abibifahodie #gandhimustfall #blackheroes #africanfilm #ghana #burkinafaso #repatriation #blackstorytelling #softpower #kmt #abibitumitv

This preview is only the first 8 minutes 59 seconds.https://www.abibitumi.com/prod....uct/reparations-and- this explosive TV3 interview, Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé Bakari Kambon breaks down the role of the Catholic Church in the kidnapping, enslavement, and exploitation of Black people, showing how religious authority, papal decrees, monarchy, capitalism, and violence worked together to create one of the greatest crimes in world history.The full interview runs 1 hour, 4 minutes, and 45 seconds, and the complete conversation goes much deeper than what you see here.In the full interview, Ɔbenfo Kambon addresses:The Catholic Church’s role in giving religious sanction to perpetual enslavementThe papal bulls Dum Diversas and Romanus PontifexWhy the term “slave trade” hides the reality of organized kidnappingThe false “400 years” narrative and why the timeline must begin earlierThe Georgetown 272 and wealth built from Black sufferingWhy apologies without restitution are meaninglessThe myth that “Africans sold Africans”The role of Christian records, baptism, and bookkeeping in distorting historyThe connection between reparations, retribution, and blood debtWhat Ghana and Black institutions must do now to demand accountabilityThe preview gives you the foundation. The full interview gives you the fire.To watch the complete 1 hour, 4 minutes, 45 second interview, purchase it on Abibitumi for $10 here:https://www.abibitumi.com/prod....uct/reparations-and- is not just another discussion about history. This is a direct challenge to the institutions that profited from the blood, labor, land, and lives of our Ancestors.Watch the preview. Then get the full interview.Title of full interview:Reparations and the Role of the Catholic Church in Enslavement: TV3 Complete InterviewPurchase the complete interview here:https://www.abibitumi.com/prod....uct/reparations-and- #catholicchurch #enslavement #blackhistory #georgetown272 #abibitumi #abibifahodie #blackliberation #tv3ghana #repatriation #ghana #blackpower