Filmmakers of Africa and the African diaspora have a long tradition of imagining their brothers and sisters from other parts of global Africa in their films, such as Ousmane Sembene s African American GI in Camp de Thioroye (1988) or Nnegest Likke s Nigerian love interest in Phat Girlz (2006)....

The focus of my presentation will be on the theme of migration in French-speaking African cinema. Ever since its beginnings with Sembène s first feature film La Noire de , African filmmakers have consistently addressed the questions of home, migration, emigration and immigration at multiple...

The paper examines the struggle for decolonization in West Africa through the critical lense of the cinema industrial complex. One of the pioneers of African cinema and also a leading anti-colonial cultural activist Paulin Soumanou Vieyra insisted that film should be regarded as a crucial...