African cinema was born in the 1960s. Afrique sur Seine (1955) by Paulin Vieyra, a brief film
dealing with African immigrants in Paris, could be taken as the preamble. Sembene …

In 1958, when Chinua Achebe published Things Fall Apart, African literature could not be
said to have existed as a discipline. This, despite the fact that there had been hundreds of …

There has seldom been a more propitious and exciting moment to study African cinema and
media than today. The current configuration of the object referred to by the phrase" African …

Is South Africa part of Africa or not? This question implicitly runs through much of the special
issue of Critical Arts volume 7 (1993), a journal on cultural studies published in South Africa …

BOOK REVIEWS |73 73 And faraway to the east, in Rwanda” (p.19). He discusses religious
beliefs, artistic expressions, and soci Page 1 BOOK REVIEWS |73 73 African Studies Quarterly …

This is an excellent book: fresh, graceful, perspicacious, intelligent, current, and always alive
with passionate sympathy for its subject. Were it translated into English–publishers take note …

In the" Acknowledgments" it is stated that Chapters 7 through 10 have been previously
published. Chapter 7 on film distribution and exhibition in Francophone Africa was …

This collection of essays addresses questions pertinent to the teaching of the relatively new
discipline surrounding the teaching and researching of African literature. A valuable …

This thematic diversification produces a typology of narratives which compete for the
spectator's attention. Each one of the narrative movements-the return to the sources, the …

The first volume of African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization is
dedicated to a comprehensive inquiry into the cinema produced in or about Africa, with a …