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...