Manthia Diawara. “On Tracking World Cinema: African Cinema at Film Festivals”. Black Camera: The Newsletter of the Black Film Center/Archives 12, n^o 1 (2020):48‑58.

“African cinema exists in exile. Gaston Kabore, the General Secretary of FEPACI, was criticized for traveling too often to Europe and America on behalf of African cinema and doing little networking in Africa. More African films are seen in Europe and America than in Africa. In fact, an African filmmaker told me that the recent African Film Festival organized in New York was more important to him than FESPACO, because African films have a better market in America than Africa.”

[Source: Excerpt from the article, p. 47].