Friday, December 27, 2013

Lancelot Imasuen to Host the Centenary of the Death of Omo n’Oba Ovonramwen

Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen, with the cast and crew of his historic epic Invasion 1897 and the news media are all looking forward to January 14, 2014, the Centenary of the death of Omo N’oba Ovonramwen in exile in Calabar, which is also the same month of the epoch of modern Nigeria by the amalgamation of the Lagos Colony, Southern and Northern protectorates on Jan 1, 1914.
 


Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen at the historic residence where the great Omo n’Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi lived and died in Calabar on January 14. 1914.

 Lancelot with famous British actor Rudolph Walker in London.

 Lancelot with Charles "Chucky" Venn in London.

 Rudolph Walker and Charles "Chucky" Venn with two female members of the UK cast and crew in London.

 Lancelot with two female members of his UK cast and crew in London.

Lancelot has been on the locations of his historic epic Invasion 1897 in Benin, Calabar and London and will be back in Lagos to host a special celebration in his Lagos studios on January 14, 2014 in remembrance of Omo n’Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi, the hero of Invasion 1897 and the great Benin Kingdom led by Oba of Benin,Omo N'Oba,N'Edo Uku Akpolokplolo EREDIAUWA, C.F.R,  the 39th Oba of the dynasty of Benin Kingdom. will be marking the historic day at the palace. The event will be the prelude to the World premiere of Invasion 1897 in Benin, Edo State of Nigeria..



 
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Thursday, December 26, 2013

Top 10 Most Outstanding People and Events in Nollywood in 2013



Top 10 Most Outstanding People and Events in Nollywood in 2013

1. Omotola Jolade-Ekeinde, for making the highly esteemed 2013 TIME 100; an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and named the Queen of Nollywood. The first ever for any Nigerian entertainer and boosting the mileage and patronage of Nollywood in the world as she graced the exclusive 2013 Time 100 Gala at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 23, 2013, with the crème de la crème of Hollywood.


2. Kenneth Gyang, one of the youngest filmmakers in Nollywood and his first feature films: the political love story "Blood and Henna" (2012) won Best Achievement In Costume Design and "Confusion Na Wa" (2013), which received funding from the Rotterdam Film Festival’s Hubert Bals Fund won highly coveted awards for the Best Film and Best Nigerian Film at the 2013 Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA), and at the Best of Nollywood (BON) Awards, "Confusion Na Wa" won Best Movie of the Year, Movie with the Best Production Design, Best Edited Movie, Best Screenplay and Director of the Year and Kenneth also won The Future Awards 2013 Prize In Arts & Culture.

3. OC Ukeje, won the Best Actor Award (Drama) of the inaugural AfricaMagic Viewers Choice Awards (AMVCA) for his outstanding role as Kole the groom in "Two Brides and a Baby"; Best Actor in a Leading Role at the Nigeria Entertainment Awards (NEA) for "Alan Poza"; Nollywood Movies Awards for "Hoodrush"; Best Actor in a Lead Role award at the 2013 Best of Nollywood (BON) Awards for his captivating performance in "Alan Poza" and crowned it with the most coveted of all The Future Awards Prize in Entertainment Talent category and dedicated the prize to Ms. Peace Anyiam-Osigwe for believing in him.

4. Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen’s most ambitious film production to date, the historical epic "Invasion 1897" and being the only African director among the 26 directors selected for the second part of the American horror trilogy "The ABCs of Death 2" made headlines in Nigeria and abroad. "Invasion 1897" is the most expensive film production in Nollywood at the moment.

5. The inaugural AfricaMagic Viewers’ Choice Awards (AMVCAs) is the best awards event in Nollywood in 2013, for the world class organization in the management with the glitz and razzmatazz that can only be compared to the best awards events in Hollywood.

6. The 9th Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) celebrating Pan African unity is the second best awards event in Nollywood in 2013.

7. Nollywood @20 Celebrations of Celebrities Glam Night on November 2, and Nollywood at 20 Grand Awards Night on November 27, 2013 were fantastic.

8. Last Flight to Abuja won the 2013 AMAA Prize for Best Film by an African Abroad, is the most watched Nigerian (non-music) video on Youtube with over 1, 500, 000 views, and also broke new grounds for Nollywood at major international film festivals, at the UK box office and made over N54 million at the box office.

9. DOBOX TV, the emergence as the first complete entertainment on-demand (EOD) portal in Nollywood and movie app of the year is fast becoming the Netflix of Africa.


10. NOLLYWOOD MIRROR®, the first edition of the NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® SERIES celebrating the 2013 Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA); leading actors, actresses, filmmakers and distributors is the first publication on Nollywood distributed simultaneously in both digital and print versions and in full colour with over 480, 000 people seeing it within 72 hours on Facebook and Twitter and thousands more on other websites and the most circulated publication on Nollywood in the world at the moment.


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Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Thousands Are Fleeing Nigeria

Diffa Commune. A displaced woman is checked off a list of beneficiaries before receiving food aid for her family. ©ICRC/H. Abdoulmoumouni.
Chetimari Commune. Women fetching water at a fountain set up by the ICRC in a displaced camp where flood victims have taken refuge. ©ICRC/I. Keita.
 
Aid continues for people fleeing Nigeria


24 Dec 2013 02:10 Africa/Lagos


Niger: People fleeing Nigeria grow in number

GENEVA, 23 December 2013 / PRNewswire Africa / - People fleeing the conflict in north-east Nigeria continue to arrive in the Diffa area, in south-easternmost Niger, where the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Red Cross Society of Niger are working to help thousands of people.

"After something of a lull, we have been seeing further population movements in the area,” said Pascal Porchet, deputy head of the ICRC delegation in Niger. “At least 450 people have arrived in Diffa district alone over the past few days."

The displaced people and the host communities are also facing problems caused by the flooding of the Komadougou Yobé River, actually an arm of Lake Chad. The recent floods have destroyed many homes, schools and health-care centres and affected large areas of farmland.

The situation was worrying, Porchet said. In addition to the floods, thousands of displaced people had arrived in the area in just a few months, and poor security conditions had led to a sharp fall in trade with Nigeria. This had aggravated the region's isolation and caused a leap in the prices of basic necessities.

On top of all this, according to estimates published by the Niger government, crop and livestock figures for the year were poorer in the Diffa area than in the rest of the country.

Aid continues for people fleeing Nigeria

Last week, the Niger Red Cross and the ICRC distributed two-month food rations to some 7,500 people (displaced persons, refugees and returnees) in the districts of Diffa, Toumour, Nguelkolo and Chetimari.

"This relief is vital to these people, who have no other means of meeting their food needs," explained Jean-Pierre Nereyabagabo, who coordinates ICRC food relief in Niger.

In addition to this emergency aid, there are also initiatives aimed at making the displaced people less dependent on humanitarian aid. One involves distributing seeds to around a hundred families in Bosso and Tchoukoudjani, to enable them to grow vegetables.

Support for displaced Fulani nomads

Among the people originally from Niger who have fled the violence in Nigeria are some 1,600 Fulani nomads belonging to the Wodaabe group. They have been receiving regular aid from the ICRC since November 2012.

"They've been forced to flee from Nigeria where they settled over a decade ago, often leaving everything behind," Nereyabagabo explained. "When they returned to Niger, they struggled to rebuild their lives and were living in difficult conditions on the outskirts of Diffa. They depended mainly on the monthly ICRC food aid to survive."

In order to help these people restore their livelihoods, the ICRC is supporting the efforts of the local authorities to relocate them to Modi Wakil, 30 km from Diffa, in Gueskerou district. On 22 November, some 275 Fulani Wodaabe families were able to move to their new village, where the ICRC has already built a well.

Two-month food rations have been distributed to families to get them started. Meanwhile, the ICRC is distributing 900 goats, at least three per household, to enable the nomads to build up their livestock again.

Niger Red Cross helps flood victims

More than 3,000 people affected by the floods received rapid help from the Niger Red Cross in Kessa Kandila, Ajeri, Rouda and Kouloukoura (Chetimari and Diffa districts).

Three hundred and fifty relief parcels, containing tarpaulins, cooking utensils, mosquito nets and clothes, were delivered to flood victims, along with food rations for a month. Work being carried out by the ICRC to construct six water points equipped with manual pumps is now nearing completion. These new facilities will ensure permanent access to drinking water and reduce health risks. One hundred and fifty water treatment kits have also been distributed.

SOURCE International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)


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The Future Awards Africa Announces 2013 Winners

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21 Dec 2013 08:00 Africa/Lagos

The Future Awards Africa Announces 2013 Winners



PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria, December 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
The names of the 15 winners of this year's 'The Future Awards Africa' 2013 were formally announced last night, at an annual awards ceremony held in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.


Chude Jideonwo, executive director of The Future Project and co-founder of The Future Awards Africa, commented, "I am delighted to announce the winners of this year's The Future Awards Africa. This year has been the most difficult year to judge to date, with so many compelling and inspiring stories of young Africans, all of who deserve to be recognised and rewarded. The winners of this year's Awards will go on to inspire a new generation of leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs across Africa and we're looking forward to seeing the winners go on to touch thousands of lives across our great continent, leaving behind a legacy that will be recognised for years to come."


The Future Awards Africa, described by the World Bank as 'The Nobel Prize for young Africans', recognise and reward the success and achievements of young people aged between 18 and 31 living in Africa. They have been awarded in 15 separate categories, including: advocacy and activism, business, agriculture, education and fashion.


In just eight years, the Awards have produced over 120 winners and 1,200 nominees in Nigeria. This year the awards became pan-African for the first time with 85 young Africans from countries including Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa, Malawi, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Liberia all nominated to receive awards. The Awards were presented in partnership with Microsoft, the British Council, Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Youth Development, the Tony Elumelu Foundation and Access Bank.

The winners of this year's Awards are:
  • THE FUTURE AWARDS YOUNG PERSON OF THE YEAR: Ashish J. Thakkar, age 24 from Uganda.
  • THE FUTURE AWARDS PRIZE IN ADVOCACY & ACTIVISM: Orode Uduaghan-Okpu, age 24 from Nigeria.
  • THE FUTURE AWARDS PRIZE IN COMMUNITY ACTION: Ife Adebayo, age 30 from Nigeria.
  • THE FUTURE AWARDS PRIZE IN NEW MEDIA: Kingsley Ezeani, age 23 from Nigeria.
  • THE FUTURE AWARDS PRIZE IN JOURNALISM: Toyosi Ogunsey, age 29 years from Nigeria.
  • THE FUTURE AWARDS PRIZE IN BUSINESS: Saeed Jumah, age 28 from Nigeria.
  • THE FUTURE AWARDS PRIZE IN PROFESSIONAL SERVICE: Kayode Temenu, age 29 from Nigeria.
  • THE FUTURE AWARDS PRIZE IN AGRICULTURE: Precious Peter Nweke, age 31 from Nigeria.
  • THE FUTURE AWARDS PRIZE IN FASHION & STYLE: Aisha Bello, age 24 from Nigeria.
  • THE FUTURE AWARDS PRIZE IN ARTS & CULTURE: Kenneth Gyang age 27 from Nigeria.
  • THE FUTURE AWARDS PRIZE IN ENTERPRISE SUPPORT: Ayodeji Adewunnmi, Opeyemi Awoyemi and Olalekan Olude, ages 29, 25 and 29 from Nigeria.
  • THE FUTURE AWARDS PRIZE IN EDUCATION: Ottoh Oroondam, age 26 from Nigeria
  • THE FUTURE PRIZE YOUNG MEDIA ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR: Uche Pedro, age 32 from Nigeria
  • THE FUTURE PRIZE IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Hugo Obi age 32 from Nigeria.
  • THE FUTURE PRIZE IN ENTERTAINMENT AND TALENT: O.C Ukeje age 32 from Nigeria

Full details of the award categories and profiles of the winners are available on request.
Contact:
David Bass
+44 20 7861 3812 / +44 7887 051 683
dbass@bell-pottinger.com

Notes to Editors:
For more information, visit http://www.thefutureafrica.com/awards and follow @TFAAfrica on Twitter.
Media partners include: Africa Magic, Y!/YNaija and Ventures Africa.

About The Future Project
The Future Project (TFP) is a Nigerian social enterprise and change communication firm affiliated to Red Media Africa set up based on a strong, practical commitment to human and capital development.
Red Media Africa is a Lagos based media content and communication Company. The company is structured into two businesses, the content side of the business, which manages the Y! Brands and The Future Awards Africa and communications side of the business, which offers a full-service suite of communications services to its clients including: public relations, new media, youth marketing, editorial consultancy and perception management. The company was first founded by Chude Jideonwo and Adebola Williams in 2004.

For more information, visit http://www.redmediaafrica.com



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January 14 is the Centenary of the Death of Omo N’oba Ovonramwen in Exile


On January 1, 2014, Nigeria will be 100 years old (modern day Nigeria came into being on January 1, 1914).But I don't think the federal government is fully prepared for the celebration of the Nigeria Centenary on Wednesday next week, because the Presidency is more occupied with addressing the face-off with former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

January 14 is also the centenary of the death of the great King of Benin, Omo n’Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi in exile in Calabar on January 14, 1914. And the great Benin Kingdom led by Oba of Benin,Omo N'Oba,N'Edo Uku Akpolokplolo EREDIAUWA, C.F.R, will be marking the historic day at the palace.



Famous Nollywood filmmaker and one of the most illustrious sons of Benin Kingdom, Lancelot Imasuen will host special guests from corporate Nigeria and leading journalists at his Lagos studios on January 14, 2014 to celebrate Omo n’Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi, the subject of his historical epic film Invasion 1897, currently the most expensive Nigerian film.

 

 
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Monday, December 23, 2013

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2014!

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19 Mistakes From Last Flight To Abuja

Obi Emelonye's "Last Flight To Abuja" – The full movie (Nollywood Movies 2013) with over 1,493,241 views so far on YouTube is the number one on the Top 10 Most Watched Videos in Nigeria in 2013 excluding Music, but Nollymovies reported the following 19 mistakes in the best selling movie.




The movie opened with radio voice-over of the "Good Morning Nigeria Show" with "Manny and the Angels" on Cool FM, Lagos. In 2006, the Good Morning Nigeria Show was hosted by Dan Foster and not Manny and the Angels.

Continuity Error:-
As the movie starts a large building is shown and "CNS Headquarters" is written on the screen. When they show the board meeting taking place in the building, Chief Nike (Jide Kosoko) refers to their office as "TNS"

Other:-
The Flamingo name and logo on the plane is obviously printed on paper and then pasted on the fuselage/body of the plane. How much would re-spraying that part of the plane have cost?

submitted by @IamNotJuke (twitter)
Continuity Error:- The first time the Captain George (Anthony Monjaro) spoke to the passengers, he wasnt smiling. He says "the weather, a cool 31 degrees celsius...thank you for choosing Flamingo *Airways, enjoy your flight". The second time, while supposedly repeating the SAME SPEECH, he says "The weather in Abuja, a cool 31 degrees celsius...thank you for choosing Flamingo *Airlines, enjoy yourself."
Continuity Error:- Captain George (Anthony Monjaro) radioed the control tower and asked for permission to take off from runway 2 but the plane is shown to have taken off from runway 15.

Continuity Error:- In the first run, Mr Adesola (Hakeem Kae-Kazim) stood up and interrupted the conversation between Suzie (Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde) and David (Jim Iyke) before heading to the toilet. When there's a replay of the SAME SCENE, he goes straight to the toilet without interrupting their conversation.

Factual Error:- Mrs Angela Efe (Chidera Orji) is seen using an iPad as her husband returns home having missed his flight. The first iPad wasn’t released until 2010 which was four years after the movie was supposedly set.
Continuity Error:-
After the Captain George (Anthony Monjaro) insists to the control tower about an emergency landing, the cabin shows and all of a sudden, there’s no smoke.

Factual Error:-
Considering how the plane crashed and all the fire, should that many people have survived? The survivors all look in very good shape with just a little dirt.

Other:-
Obvious sponsorship advertisements over-emphasizing the sponsors' brands. E.g. Cool FM, Diamond Bank, Nigeria Info, Zinox Computers, Wazobia FM.

Continuity Error:-
The crying girl, Anietie (Abigail Oyinkansola) who refuses to let her dad travel cries in the car, walks away from the car grinning and is seen crying again the second her father stops.

Other:-
Kevin Efe (Uche Odoputa) practically hands his phone to the thief who supposedly snatches the phone from him while he used it.

Factual Error:- The magazine on which Jimi (Sam Ajibola) signs his autograph for Mukhtar, "Whats Inside Lagos", wasn’t available until 2010.

Factual Error:-
The Elderly Man (Olumide Bakare) was travelling for a surgery for diabetes. Problem is, diabetes treatment does not require surgery.

Factual Error:-
Dr. Gina (Rachel Ekiama) checks Charles' temperature with stethoscope. A stethoscope is an acoustic medical device used for listening to internal sounds. A thermometer should have been used to check his temperature. Dr Gina also uses a Blackberry Torch 3 which wasn’t available until 2011.
submitted by @HandleOfTheYear (twitter)

Factual Error:-
A car battery is seen being loaded onto the plane. A car battery is a corrosive and is therefore internationally prohibited from being loaded on an airplane.

Other:-
On their way from the airport Mrs Ime Ibong looks at a police convoy and says "Is that not the governor?" to which her husband replies "that looks like my chairman, Chief Nike". The SUVs they both looked at were tinted. How did they see through the tinted glasses?

Other:-
As Soibifa (Omalicha Iyasara) struggles with Mr Adesola (Hakeem Kae-Kazim) in the hotel room, she falls on her right hand which is shown to be placed between her head and the broken glass, implying her head had no direct contact with the broken glass table which supposedly killed her.

Factual Error:-
After all the passengers leave the plane, David (Jim Iyke) tries to help Mr Adesola (Hakeem Kae-Kazim) out, abandons him and runs out as the plane explodes. Now the explosion is shown to have started before David got to the rear exit. An explosion of that magnitude should be enough to kill him. Even if it doesn’t, he should have serious burns and injuries. Right?

SOURCE :- http://nollymovies.tk

NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® By Michael Chima Ekenyerengozi
 

 
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Saturday, December 21, 2013

Famous British Actor Rudolph Walker Replaces Joseph Marcell in Invasion 1897

Rudolph Walker in the Eastenders.  

Famous British Actor Rudolph Walker Replaces Joseph Marcell in Invasion 1897


Famous Caribbean born British Actor Rudolph Walker, OBE, has replaced St. Lucian-born English actor Joseph Marcell in Lancelot Imasuen’s historical epic film Invasion 1897.
“This afternoon we signed Rudolph Walker to play a role in Invasion 1897,” said Lancelot Imasuen Friday December 20, as we met in his busy Lagos studios to discuss the progress of the film and his short horror film for The ABCs of Death 2.
“Joseph Marcell couldn't make our new date for shooting in London, because of his other schedules. We will be filming in London before the end of the month. And Rudolph has always been my first choice to play a special role in Invasion 1897,” he added.
His London based associate producers Joe Ehigiamusoe and Julius Imabe of J2 Konsult Inc, in the UK manage the business of Lancelot Imasuen in Europe.


Lancelot Imasuen and his associates.

The British actor was the first black actor to appear in a major British TV series for his breakthrough role as Bill in the sitcom Love Thy Neighbour and currently popular for his role as Patrick Truman in the BBC One TV soap opera Eastenders, you can see on BBC1 and BBC3 on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and the Sunday Omnibus.

Rudolph Walker is happily married to Dounne Alexander, MBE, an accomplished Caribbean born British spiritual herbalist, publisher, author, motivational speaker, health campaigner and award winning business pioneer, voted one of the 100 most influential black people in British history for the 2000 millennium (with her contribution was recorded by the BBC and is stored in the British National Library for posterity).
Mr. Walker is still very much agile even at 74. And he said: ‘An Actor's life for me is one which keeps you creative; forever developing, growing, flourishing and enriching, yourself and others. Therefore you cannot afford to become complacent or relaxed for too long… hence retirement is never a choice; you simply go on to ‘the end.’
Another popular English actor in the film is Charles "Chucky" Venn known for his roles as Curtis Alexander in Sky One's Dream Team, Tremaine Gidigbi in Footballers' Wives and Ray Dixon in EastEnders.

Invasion 1897 is the most anticipated film to celebrate the Nigeria Centenary in 2014 (modern day Nigeria came into being on January 1, 1914), and to mark the centenary of the death of the great King of Benin, Omo n’Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi in exile in Calabar on January 14, 1914, Lancelot Imasuen will host special guests from corporate Nigeria and leading journalists at his Lagos studios on January 14, 2014.




Top Nigerian actors playing lead roles in the epic movie include Charles Inojie, Paul Obazele, Segun arinze, Mike Omoriegbe as Oba Ovonrawmen and the late Justus Esiri in a cameo role.

 Did you know that five years before the death of Omo n’Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi, the British Consul-General Moor, who captured, deposed and sent him on exile in Calabar committed suicide in Barnes, Middlesex in 1909. The great Ovonramwen must have cursed him for no one commits such a great sacrilege and escapes the wrath of the Benin Kingdom.


Omo n’Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.

 Invasion 1897 is the untold story of the Benin Expedition of 1897 by the United Kingdom force of 1,200 under Admiral Sir Harry Rawson who captured, burned, and looted Benin City, bringing to an end the West African Kingdom of Benin.  


~ By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima


 
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Friday, December 20, 2013

Nollywood is Our Shining Light! - President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria


 “Whenever I travel abroad, many of my colleagues, Presidents of other countries, ask me about Nollywood. Nollywood is our shining light. Africans are very proud of Nollywood. That is why we are here today to celebrate the success story of this national, continental and global brand.”
~ President Goodluck Jonathan.


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Did you know that Ivorian rebels in the bush stopped fighting when a shipment of Nollywood DVDs arrived from Lagos? 


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Thursday, December 19, 2013

South Africa Fails To Deliver Nelson Mandela's Education Vision



17 Dec 2013 09:55 Africa/Lagos

South Africa fails to deliver Nelson Mandela's education vision


VADUZ, Liechtenstein, December 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
http://www.worldreview.info
 
South Africa is facing an education crisis. It has failed to uphold the dream of former South Africa leader Nelson Mandela - to provide equal opportunity to the nation's young through education, writes World Review author Dr Pauline Dixon, senior lecturer in International Development and Education at the University of Newcastle, UK.


'Mr Mandela, who led the nation from apartheid to democracy, believed that education was key to emancipation, social mobility - and to the future prosperity of  South Africa . Yet this principle has still yet to be realised,' she says.


Results from South Africa's Department of Basic Education school monitoring survey in 2011, which looked only at public schools, shows that minimum standards were not met in 14 out of 15 indicators. Main concerns include teaching posts not being filled, the lack of curriculum being covered in a week, and the high number of pupils who are unable to access library facilities and enjoy basic physical infrastructure such as school buildings, grounds, furniture, equipment and apparatus believed essential to impart education.
'The teaching of mathematics in rural and poor schools is the worst in southern and eastern Africa ,' says Dr Dixon. 'Children in poorer African countries such as  Lesotho  and  Zambia  are out performing children in  South Africa . Findings by the Centre for Development and Enterprise show that less than one quarter of Class 6 teachers were able to answer Class 6 maths questions correctly.'
'It is not surprising that between 2000 and 2010 the number of public schools dropped by nine per cent while the number of independent schools increased by more than 44 per cent. The number of pupils enrolled at independent schools has risen by more than 50 per cent in that period.'
South Africa's education system is now seeing an alternative developing - a de facto privatisation of schooling. Studies show that there is a small, but growing low-fee private schooling sector in South Africa.
The growth in independent education is relatively new. But it is displaying innovation and a keenness for people to get involved - driven by two factors - profit and the demand created by the inadequacy of public schooling.


'Some argue that South Africans have forgotten that change can come from the grassroots, from ordinary people acting in their own best interest. But in years to come the expansion and growth of low-cost private schools - through parents voting with their feet - might overcome some of the acquiescence to state domination.'


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World Review author Dr Pauline Dixon is a senior lecturer in International Development and Education at Newcastle University in the North East of England. She is Research Director of the E.G. West Centre at the university and Degree Programme Director of the Masters in International Development and Education. She lectures in economics, education policy and quantitative methods. Dr Dixon's research in India, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, China, and Tunisia, investigates education for the poorest living in slums and shanty towns.


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