The Africa Institute. Foundations of African Cinema symposium ‘Decolonizing African Cinema: A History’. “Foundations of African Cinema.” Filmed in October 2021 at the Africa Institute, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Video,1:42:42. https://theafricainstitute.org/institute-program/week-01-foundations-of-african-cinema/

This symposium will examine 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 will be encouraged to consider the declarations, articulations, and the work of those referred to as the ‘pioneers of African cinema’. These parameters will also be 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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