{"id":211136,"date":"2026-05-08T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/can-artificial-intelligence-help-nollywood-tell-african-stories-differently-without-losing-its-soul-eye-on-africa\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T17:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T21:35:09","slug":"can-artificial-intelligence-help-nollywood-tell-african-stories-differently-without-losing-its-soul-eye-on-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/can-artificial-intelligence-help-nollywood-tell-african-stories-differently-without-losing-its-soul-eye-on-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Can artificial intelligence help Nollywood tell African stories differently without losing its soul? &#8211; Eye on Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tv-shows\/eye-on-africa\/20260508-can-artificial-intelligence-help-nollywood-tell-african-stories-differently-without-losing-its-soul\">Can artificial intelligence help Nollywood tell African stories differently without losing its soul? &#8211; Eye on Africa<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tv-shows\/eye-on-africa\/20260508-can-artificial-intelligence-help-nollywood-tell-african-stories-differently-without-losing-its-soul\">https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tv-shows\/eye-on-africa\/20260508-can-artificial-intelligence-help-nollywood-tell-african-stories-differently-without-losing-its-soul<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-08 17:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.france24.com\">www.france24.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a significant part of Africa&#8217;s creative revolution, particularly in Nigeria.<\/li>\n<li>Filmmakers and digital artists are using AI tools for creating films, archiving disappearing oral histories, and envisioning future African narratives.<\/li>\n<li>Obinna Okere-keocha, founder of the Naija Artificial Intelligence Film Festival, and filmmaker Malik Afegbua are utilizing AI to preserve fading oral traditions by creating digital archives.<\/li>\n<li>AI&#8217;s role in keeping cultural heritage alive and fostering innovative storytelling in Africa is gaining traction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can artificial intelligence help Nollywood tell African stories differently without losing its soul? &#8211; Eye&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/05f7e92a-4b1f-11f1-bab9-005056a97e36\/w:1280\/p:16x9\/ANGL260508-2140-Live-CS2140.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-211136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211138,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211136\/revisions\/211138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}