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Hip-hop star K'naan will join the grand opening festivities for TIFF Bell Lightbox, the Toronto International Film Festival's new home.

The Juno-winning Somali-Canadian rapper, who had been touring the globe with his World Cup 2010 anthem Wavin' Flag, is back in his adopted hometown of Toronto and will take the stage at the Lightbox opening block party on Sunday, organizers announced Saturday morning.

We at Addicted To African and Caribbean Magazine (ATAC Mag), in partnership with 54 Kingdoms LLC , are the founding companies for the "Built for Haiti" campaign. By establishing "Built for Haiti," we hope to gain sponsors/donors who are willing to make monetary donations for on-going Haitian relief projects.

UK-based unconventional American visual artist, Douglas Fishbone is currently in Ghana filming his first major role in a feature, tentatively titled ‘Elmina’. The Revele Films production is a thought provoking feature on oil, colonialism, greed, love and hatred. Although the story revolves around different families in crisis, it would focus on a man who decides to fight the system and live with the consequences.

Haiti born Hollywood actor Jimmy Jean Louis has expressed a need for African movie makers to lift up their game to rock with the best in the international scene.According to him, even though the African continent has a lot of potentials in movie making, industry players are not really taking advantage of it.

Pan African Superstar and Multiple Awards Winning Afro Reggae artist from Ghana, SAMINI have signed to Rockstar 4000 Music Entertainment – the African continent’s first Pan African 360 Music & Entertainment  Company and Record Label.