African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization

Volume 2: FESPACO—Formation, Evolution, Challenges
Volume Two is devoted to the decolonizing mediation of the Pan African Film & Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO). This volume features historically significant and commissioned essays, commentaries, conversations, dossiers, and programmatic statements and manifestos that mark and elaborate the key moments in the evolution of FESPACO over the span of the past five decades.

Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers readers a researched critique on black film.
Volume Two of this landmark series on African cinema is devoted to the decolonizing mediation of the Pan African Film & Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO), the most important, inclusive, and consequential cinematic convocation of its kind in the world. Since its creation in 1969, FESPACO's mission is, in principle, remarkably unchanged: to unapologetically recover, chronicle, affirm, and reconstitute the representation of the African continent and its global diasporas of people, thereby enunciating in the cinematic, all manner of Pan-African identity, experience, and the futurity of the Black World.
This volume features historically significant and commissioned essays, commentaries, conversations, dossiers, and programmatic statements and manifestos that mark and elaborate the key moments in the evolution of FESPACO over the span of the past five decades.

Contributor: Ardiouma Soma (Preface by), Lindiwe Dovey (Contributions by), Sambolgo Bangre (Contributions by), Dorothee Wenner (Contributions by), Manthia Diawara (Contributions by), M. Africanus Aveh (Contributions by), Mbye Cham (Contributions by), Ousmane Sembene (Contributions by), Wole Soyinka (Contributions by), Aboubakar Sanogo (Contributions by), Teresa Hoefert de Turegano (Contributions by), Claire Andrade-Watkins (Contributions by), Beti Ellerson (Contributions by), Férid Boughedir (Contributions by), Claire Diao (Contributions by), Michel Amarger (Contributions by), Mustapha Ouedgraogo (Contributions by), Colin Dupré (Contributions by), Sheila Petty (Contributions by), Imruh Bakari (Contributions by), June Givanni (Contributions by), Mahir Saul (Contributions by), Michael T. Martin (Edited by), Gaston Jean-Marie Kaboré (Edited by), Allison J. Brown (With), Cole Nelson (With), Olivier Barlet (Contributions by), Rémi Abega (Contributions by), Rod Stoneman (Contributions by), Michael T. Martin (Contributions by), Joseph E. Roskos (With)

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