- Table of Contents

- On the Matter of African Cinema-Some Introductory Remarks
- Gaston J.M. Kaboré, Michael T. Martin
- pp. 1-8
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- Colonial Cinema
- Roy Armes
- pp. 10-28
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- The Colonialist Regime of Representation, 1945-1960
- James E. Genova
- pp. 29-60
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- Politics of Cultural Conversion in Colonialist African Cinema
- Femi Okiremuete Shaka
- pp. 61-90
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- The African Bioscope-Movie-House Culture in British Colonial Africa
- James Burns
- pp. 91-106
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- From the Inside: The Colonial Film Unit and the Beginning of the End
- Tom Rice
- pp. 107-128
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- The Independence Generation: Film Culture and the Anti-Colonial Struggle in the 1950s
- Odile Goerg
- pp. 129-154
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- What Is Cinema for Us?
- Med Hondo
- pp. 156-160
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- A Cinema Fighting for its Liberation
- Férid Boughedir
- pp. 161-167
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- Where Are the African Women Filmmakers?
- Haile Gerima
- pp. 168-175
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- The FEPACI and Its Artistic Legacies
- Sada Niang
- pp. 176-202
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- The Six Decades of African Film
- Olivier Barlet
- pp. 203-219
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- Africa, The Last Cinema
- Clyde Taylor
- pp. 220-235
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- The Pan-African Cinema Movement: Achievements, Misfortunes, and Failures (1969-2020)
- Férid Boughedir
- pp. 236-256
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- African Cinema(s): Definitions, Identity, and Theoretical Considerations
- Alexie Tcheuyap
- pp. 258-279
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- Theorizing African Cinema: Contemporary African Cinematic Discourse and Its Discontents
- Esiaba Irobi
- pp. 280-302
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- The Theoretical Construction of African Cinema
- Stephen A. Zacks
- pp. 303-316
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- Towards a Critical Theory of Third World Films
- Teshome H. Gabriel
- pp. 317-337
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- Africans Filming Africa: Questioning Theories of an Authentic African Cinema
- David Murphy
- pp. 338-357
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- Tradition/Modernity and the Discourse of African Cinema
- Jude Akudinobi
- pp. 358-371
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- Towards a Theory of Orality in African Cinema
- Keyan G. Tomaselli, Arnold Shepperson, Maureen Eke
- pp. 372-392
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- Film and the Problem of Languages in Africa
- Paulin Soumanou Vieyra
- pp. 393-398
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- In Defense of African Film Studies
- Boukary Sawadogo
- pp. 399-404
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- Dossier 1: Key Dates in the History of African Cinema
- Olivier Barlet, Claude Forest
- pp. 406-447
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- Dossier 2: Ousmane Sembène
- Samba Gadjigo, Sada Niang
- pp. 449-450
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- Sembène's Legacy to FESPACO
- Sada Niang, Samba Gadjigo
- pp. 451-458
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- Vigil for a centennial
- Ousmane Sembène
- p. 459
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- Cinema as Evening School
- Ousmane Sembène
- pp. 460-462
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- Statement at Ouagadougou (1979)
- Ousmane Sembène
- pp. 463-478
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- Art for Man's Sake: A Tribute to Ousmane Sembène
- Samba Gadjigo
- pp. 479-484
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- On "Mediated Solidarity": Reading Ousmane Sembène in Sembène!
- Michael T. Martin
- pp. 485-522
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- Ousmane Sembène: An Annotated Gallery
- Cole Nelson, Eileen Julien
- pp. 523-532
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- Dossier 3: African Women in Cinema
- Beti Ellerson
- pp. 533-535
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- African Women Professionals in Cinema: Manifestos, Communiqués, Declarations, Statements, Resolutions
- Beti Ellerson
- pp. 536-590
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- The Taking of the Cinemateca Brasileira
- Darlene J. Sadlier
- pp. 591-608
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