Directory of World Cinema

Eschewing the postcolonial hubris that suggests Africa could only define itself in relation to its colonizers, a problem plaguing many studies published in the West on African cinema, this entry in the Directory of World Cinema series instead looks at African film as representing Africa for its own sake, values, and artistic choices.

Blandine Stefanson is a visiting research fellow at the University of Adelaide. She is coeditor of African Historians and Globalization. Sheila Petty teaches media studies at the University of Regina and is the author of Contact Zones, Memory, Origin and Discourses in Black Diasporic Cinema.