Sentence examples for the african backdrop from inspiring English sources

The African backdrop is still fairly bleak.

But Africa and its struggles are essential to the picture: as the presence of an African backdrop, in conjunction with the protestations of core values, attests.

Artists like Bowles, who visited in 1959 while recording Gnawa music for the Library of Congress, and Orson Welles, who spent nearly two years there off and on in the late 1940s and early 50s filming "Othello," using the city's ramparts, hammams and arched gateways as a fitting North African backdrop for the tragedy of the Moor, were also charmed by the city's beauty.

So alongside tasters for eminent names such as Mali's late Ali Farka Toure and France's Gipsy Kings come Arctic meditations from Finland's Ulla Pirttijarvi and septuagenarian Polish poet Bogdan Loebl rumbling to an African backdrop.

The song's set design, of kitsch African backdrops meets The Flintstones in neon, is a bit early MIA, a bit Solange (her younger sister) and all good.

The first director to use front projection with retroreflective matting in a main-stream movie, Kubrick chose the technique to produce the backdrops for the African scenes showing ape-men against vast natural-terrain backgrounds, as traditional techniques such as painted backdrops or rear-projection did not produce the realistic look Kubrick demanded.

The expansive backdrops for the African scenes required a screen 40 feet tall and 110 feet wide, far larger than had ever been used before.

For this reason, those of us from the African continent hope that such a backdrop gave the first post-Paris meeting a greater sense of urgency.

The Masai Mara, one of Kenya's most popular parks, is home to a stunning variety of animals including the famous "Big 5" of the African grasslands and serves as the backdrop to the world's most awe-inspiring animal migration.

And all of these events unfolded against the backdrop of a yearlong military invasion led by the African Union and backed by the United States and Britain.

Against the backdrop that environmental performance of most countries within the African continent are poor compared with the developed countries,1 the need for an assessment of the environmental reporting practices of firms in Africa cannot be overemphasized.