Diop, Samba. African Francophone Cinema. New Orleans, LA: University Press of the South, 2004.

The major contemporary African Francophone filmmakers and their films are treated here. This short encyclopedic book discusses a certain number of themes as they are featured in African Francophone Cinema: History; Oral Traditions and Literatures; Myth, Religion, and Cosmogony; Gender, Homosexuality, and New Aesthetics; Image and Film Production; and, finally, the themes of Modernity and Post-colonialism. The interface between cinematographic language and image is also studied. This study reflects the vibrancy of the emergent field of African cinema. Furthermore, the reading and interpretation of the aforementioned themes is a testimony toward the commitment of African filmmakers who re-visit and update a certain number of topics as well as explore new avenues, thus pushing further and further outward the boundaries of filmmaking in Africa.

[Source: University Press of the South].

Dipio Dominica

Professor, African literature and film, Makere University

Email: dodipio@yahoo.com/dodipio@chuss.mak.ac.ug

Dipio, Dominica. Gender Terrains in African Cinema. African Humanities Series. Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2014.

Gender Terrains in African Cinema reflects on a body of canonical African filmmakers who address a trajectory of pertinent social issues. Dipio analyses gender relations around three categories of female characters - the girl child, the young woman and the elderly woman and their male counterparts. Although gender remains the focal point in this lucid and fascinating text, Dipio engages attention in her discussion of African feminism in relation to Western feminism. With its broad appeal to African humanities, Gender Terrains in African Cinema stands as a unique and radical contribution to the field of (African) film studies, which until now, has suffered from a paucity of scholarship.

[Source: Amazon].

Leila Djansi

Filmmaker (Cinema)

‍instagram.com/leiladjansi/

Assia Djebar

Novelist, Translator and Filmmaker

Algeria

Jacqueline C Djedje

Professor, Ethnomusicology, Department of Ethnomusicology, UCLA

Email: djedje@ucla.edu

Djembe Monks Band

Musicians (Afro Fusion)

Zimbabwe

Djembe Monks OFFICIAL - YouTube

facebook.com/DjembeMonks

Antoine A. Djogbenou

Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at York University

Email: daa@york.ca