Naudillon, Françoise, Sathya Rao, and Janusz Przychodzeń, eds. L’Afriquefait son cinéma: regards et perspectives sur le cinéma africain francophone. [Africa Puts on a Great Act: Viewpoints and Perspectives on French-speaking African Cinema] Montréal, QC: Mémoire d’encrier, 2006.

Once ostracized from history, Africa now finds itself at the heart of all the debates. While colonial cinema freezes the African in a number of stereo types, the media make him look like a famished individual whose agony has become commonplace. African cinema rejects the Epinal print or morbid clichés and opens the way to new questions about the relationship between picture and memory.

[Source: Mémoires d’encrier, adapted and translated from French].