Idris Elba reveals he wants to settle in Africa within a decade amid plans to help bolster their film industry by opening studios in Zanzibar and Ghana Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.com By Amelia Wynne For Mailonline Published: 01:45 BST, 24 October 2024 | Updated: 01:53 BST, 24 October 2024 e-mail View comments Idris Elba has revealed that he wants to settle in Africa within a decade. The actor, 52, wishes to help bolster their film industry and is opening film studios in Zanzibar and Ghana's capital Accra.
Idris - whose mother is from Ghana and father is from Sierra Leone - was born in Hackney in east London. On Wednesday he told the BBC : 'I would certainly consider settling down here — not even consider; it's going to happen. 'I think I'll move in the next five, ten years, God willing.
I'm here to bolster the film industry. That is a ten-year process. I won't be able to do that from overseas.
I need to be in-country, on the continent.' Idris Elba has revealed that he wants to settle in Africa within a decade Idris - whose mother is from Ghana and father is from Sierra Leone - was born in Hackney in east London (seen with his father Winston) 'I'm going to live in Accra, I'm going to live in Freetown [the capital of Sierra Leone], I'm going to live in Zanzibar. I'm going to try and go where they're telling stories - that's really important.
' He added that he thinks it is vital for Africans to play a key part in all areas of the film-making process including i.