Decolonizing African Cinema: A History | Week 01 Foundations of African Cinema

Week 01 | Foundations of African Cinema:
This symposium examines the ideas that led to the emergence of ‘African cinema’. Acknowledging that ‘African cinema’ offered itself for critical global recognition in relation to issues of cultural identity, national independence movements, and Pan-African solidarity, the discussants are encouraged to consider the declarations, articulations, and the work of those referred to as the ‘pioneers of African cinema’.
These parameters are considered in the context of contemporary debates around filmmaking in Africa and the African diaspora; and in relation to current perspectives on cinema that incorporate concepts such as ‘Black Africa’, ‘Africa North of the Sahara’, Afrofuturism, Afrosurrealism, and the meaning of cinema in the twenty-first century.
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