Africa’s Premier League: A film exploring a continent’s connection to English football
Africa’s Premier League: A film exploring a continent’s connection to English football
Africa’s Premier League: A film exploring a continent’s connection to English football
It’s relationship that everyone has seen, and yet it has never truly been explored. Africa may be divided by old colonial borders, thousands of different languages, and major cultural, political and economic differences. But the continent is united every weekend around the spellbinding spectacle of English football.
There are millions and millions of supporters of Premier League clubs, and these numbers have faces and names and brilliant stories and personalities.
With a film that will tell the story of Africa’s passion for the English Premier League through the eyes of the fans themselves, our friends at Africa is a Country want to show, in depth and detail, exactly how English football fits into the ordinary lives of African supporters.
In their words, “The everyday lives of Africa’s football fans are all different. Yet they share a long-distance love affair, with all the hopes, fears, joys and sadness that comes with it.
If it’s not Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame taking time out to tweet his views on his beloved Arsenal, then it’s the millions of ordinary Africans across the continent who are glued to TV sets in bars and bespoke viewing centres, from tiny villages to heaving mega-cities like Lagos or Kinshasa.”
Learn more and support the project on Kickstarter here.
