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Abderrahmane Sissako
Abderrahmane Sissako (born 13 October 1961) is a Mauritanian film director and producer.
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Abdisalam Aato
Abdisalam Aato (Cabdisalaan Caato; عبد السلام عاتو) (born 1970) is a Somali-American film director, producer, entrepreneur and media consultant.
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Abdoulaye Ascofaré
Abdoulaye Ascofaré (born April 20, 1949, in Gao) is a Malian poet and filmmaker.
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Abdulkadir Ahmed Said
Abdulkadir Ahmed Said (Cabdulkaadir Axmed Saciid, عبد القادر أحمد سعيد) is a prominent Somali film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer and editor.
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Adama Drabo
Adama Drabo (1948 in Bamako, Mali- July 15, 2009) was a Malian filmmaker and playwright.
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Adventure film
Adventure films are a genre of film that typically use their action scenes to display and explore exotic locations in an energetic way.
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Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).
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Africa Movie Academy Awards
The Africa Movie Academy Awards, popularly known as AMAA and The AMA Awards, are presented annually to recognize excellence among professionals working in, or non-African professionals who have contributed to, the African film industry.
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African literature
African literature is literature of or from Africa and includes oral literature (or "orature", in the term coined by Ugandan scholar Pio Zirimu).
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African Union
The African Union (AU) is a continental union consisting of all 55 countries on the African continent, extending slightly into Asia via the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt.
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Afrique 50
Afrique 50 is a 1956 French documentary film directed by René Vautier.
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Alain Resnais
Alain Resnais (3 June 19221 March 2014) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades.
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Algiers
Algiers (الجزائر al-Jazā’er, ⴷⵣⴰⵢⴻ, Alger) is the capital and largest city of Algeria.
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Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola (República de Angola; Kikongo, Kimbundu and Repubilika ya Ngola), is a country in Southern Africa.
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Anne-Laure Folly
Anne-Laure Folly (born March 31, 1954) is a documentary film maker from Togo.
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Ashraf Fahmy
Ashraf Fahmy (Arabic: أشرف فهمي 25 August 1936 – 25 January 2001 was an Egyptian film director active in the Egyptian film industry since the late 1960s. He was credited with launching the career with his First Feature Film (The Killers – Arabic: القتلة) a daring director frequently seen in film festivals worldwide during decades, in addition he wrote three Films (Until The End of Lifetime – Arabic: (حتى آخر العمر (فيلم) one of the most memorable film and famous for the music composed by Omar Khorshid, and he also produced three other films.
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Atef El-Tayeb
Atef El-Tayeb (عاطف الطيب) (born 1947-June 23, 1995) was an Egyptian film director.
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Bantu Educational Kinema Experiment
The Bantu Educational Kinema Experiment (BEKE) was a project of the International Missionary Council in coordination with the Carnegie Corporation of New York and British colonial governments of Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland in the mid-1930s.
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Bantu peoples
The Bantu peoples are the speakers of Bantu languages, comprising several hundred ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa, spread over a vast area from Central Africa across the African Great Lakes to Southern Africa.
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Ben Diogaye Bèye
Ben Diogaye Bèye (born 1947) is a Senegalese filmwriter, filmmaker, film producer and journalist.
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Benin
Benin (Bénin), officially the Republic of Benin (République du Bénin) and formerly Dahomey, is a country in West Africa.
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Bertolt Brecht
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.
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Bill Nichols
Bill Nichols (born 1942) is an American film critic and theoretician best known for his pioneering work as founder of the contemporary study of documentary film.
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Black Girl (1966 film)
Black Girl is a 1966 French-Senegalese film by writer/director Ousmane Sembène, starring Mbissine Thérèse Diop.
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Brazil
Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.
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Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa.
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Carthage
Carthage (from Carthago; Punic:, Qart-ḥadašt, "New City") was the center or capital city of the ancient Carthaginian civilization, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now the Tunis Governorate in Tunisia.
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Cheick Oumar Sissoko
Cheick Oumar Sissoko (born 1945 in San, Mali) is a Malian film director and politician.
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Chris Marker
Chris Marker (29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012) was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist.
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Cinema Novo
Cinema Novo is a genre and movement of film noted for its emphasis on social equality and intellectualism that rose to prominence in Brazil during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Cinema of Egypt
The cinema of Egypt refers to the flourishing film industry based in Cairo, the capital of Egypt.
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Cinema of Nigeria
The cinema of Nigeria, often referred to informally as Nollywood, consists of films produced in Nigeria; its history dates back to as early as the late 19th century and into the colonial era in the early 20th century.
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Dani Kouyaté
Dani Kouyaté (born June 4, 1961) is a film director and griot from Burkina Faso, which the BBC describes as "Africa's most important film-making country".
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Desiré Ecaré
Désiré Ecaré (April 15, 1939; Treichville, Côte d'Ivoire – 16 February 2009; Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire) was an Ivorian film director.
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Djibril Diop Mambéty
Djibril Diop Mambéty (January 1945 – July 23, 1998) was a Senegalese film director, actor, orator, composer and poet.
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Documentary film
A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American fiction writer best known for his celebrated and prolific output in the adventure and science-fiction genres.
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Eric Kabera
Eric Kabera (born 1970) is a Rwandan journalist, filmmaker and founder and president of Rwanda Cinema Center.
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Exoticism
Exoticism (from 'exotic') is a trend in European art and design, influenced by some ethnic groups or civilizations from the late 19th-century.
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Ezzel Dine Zulficar
Ezzel Dine Zulficar (عزالدين ذو الفقار,; October 28, 1919 – July 1, 1963) was an Egyptian film director, screenwriter, actor and producer.
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Fanta Régina Nacro
Fanta Régina Nacro (born 4 September 1962) is a film director from Burkina Faso.
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Férid Boughedir
Férid Boughedir (born 1944) is a Tunisian film director and screenwriter.
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Fernando Solanas
Fernando Ezequiel 'Pino' Solanas (born 16 February 1936) is an Argentine film director, screenwriter and politician.
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Flora Gomes
Flora Gomes is a Bissau-Guinean film director.
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France
France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.
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Gabon
Gabon, officially the Gabonese Republic (République gabonaise), is a sovereign state on the west coast of Central Africa.
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Gadalla Gubara
Gadalla Gubara is a Sudanese filmmaker who has been making films since 1946.
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Gaston Kaboré
Gaston Kaboré (born 1951) is a Burkinabé film director and an important figure in Burkina Faso's film industry.
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Gavin Hood
Gavin Hood (born 12 May 1963) is a South African filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and actor, best known for writing and directing Tsotsi (2005), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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George Stanley Nsamba
Ediu George Stanley Nsamba, also known as "Nes" (born 14 October 1989) is a Ugandan film producer, director,cinematographer, screenwriter, editor, spokenword artist and human rights activist.
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Griot
A griot, jali or jeli (djeli or djéli in French spelling) is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet and/or musician.
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Guimba the Tyrant
Guimba the Tyrant (Guimba, un tyran, une époque) is a 1995 Malian comedy drama film in the Bambara language (with some Fula language components), directed by noted Malian director Cheick Oumar Sissoko.
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H. Rider Haggard
Sir Henry Rider Haggard, (22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925), known as H. Rider Haggard, was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre.
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Haile Gerima
Haile Gerima (born March 4, 1946) is an Ethiopian filmmaker who lives and works in the United States.
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Hermon Hailay
Hermon Hailay is an award-winning Ethiopian film writer/director.
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Hoobastank
Hoobastank (often stylized as h∞bastank, and originally known as Hoobustank) is an American rock band, formed in 1994 in Agoura Hills, California with lead singer Doug Robb, guitarist Dan Estrin, drummer Chris Hesse, and original bassist Markku Lappalainen.
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Idil Ibrahim
Idil Ibrahim (Idil Ibraahiim; إيديل إبراهيم) is a Somali–American film director, producer, actress, writer and entrepreneur.
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Idrissa Ouédraogo
Idrissa Ouédraogo (21 January 1954 – 18 February 2018) was a Burkinabé filmmaker.
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Imunga Ivanga
Imunga Ivanga (b. 1967 in Libreville, Gabon) is a Gabonese filmmaker.
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Indiana University Press
Indiana University Press, also known as IU Press, is an academic publisher founded in 1950 at Indiana University that specializes in the humanities and social sciences.
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Institut des hautes études cinématographiques
L'Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC; the "Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies") is a French film school, founded during World War II under the leadership of Marcel L'Herbier who was its president from 1944 to 1969.
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Issa Serge Coelo
Issa Serge Coelo (born 1967) is a Chadian film director.
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Italian neorealism
Italian neorealism (Neorealismo), also known as the Golden Age, is a national film movement characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the working class, filmed on location, frequently using non-professional actors.
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Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially as the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a sovereign state located in West Africa.
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Izu Ojukwu
Izu Ojukwu is a Nigerian film director.
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Jean Rouch
Jean Rouch (31 May 1917 – 18 February 2004) was a French filmmaker and anthropologist.
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Jean-Pierre Bekolo
Jean-Pierre Bekolo (born June 8, 1966 in Yaoundé, Cameroon) is a film director who is considered one of Cameroon’s most famous filmmakers.
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Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa
Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa is a Cameroonian film director and writer.
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John Akomfrah
John Akomfrah, CBE (born 4 May 1957) is a British artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator of Ghanaian descent, whose "commitment to a radicalism both of politics and of cinematic form finds expression in all his films".
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Jonathan Liebesman
Jonathan Liebesman (born 15 September 1976) is a South African film director and writer.
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Kemi Adetiba
Kemi Adetiba is a Nigerian music video director, filmmaker, and television director whose works have appeared on Channel O, MTV Base, Soundcity TV, BET and Netflix.
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Khairy Beshara
Khairy Beshara (خيري بشارة; born June 30, 1947 in Tanta, Egypt) is an Egyptian film director active in the Egyptian film industry since the 1970s.
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Khaled Youssef
Khaled Youssef (خالد يوسف.; born 28 September 1964), is an Egyptian director and film writer.
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King Ampaw
King Ampaw is an award-winning Ghanaian filmmaker and actor born in Kukurantumi in the Eastern Region of Ghana.
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King Solomon's Mines
King Solomon's Mines (1885) is a popular novel by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard.
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Kivu Ruhorahoza
Kivu Ruhorahoza is a Rwandese film director, writer and producer.
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Kunle Afolayan
Kunle Afolayan (born 30 September 1974) is a Nigerian actor, film producer and director.
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Kwaw Ansah
Kwaw Paintsil Ansah (born 1941) is an award-winning Ghanaian film-maker, whose work as writer, director or producer includes Love Brewed in the African Pot in 1980 and Heritage Africa in 1989.
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Leila Djansi
Leila Afua Djansi (born July 17, 1981) is an American and Ghanaian filmmaker who started her film career in the Ghana film industry.
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Les maîtres fous
Les maîtres fous ("The Mad Masters") is a 1955 short film directed by Jean Rouch, a well-known French film director and ethnologist.
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Les Oubliées
Les Oubliées (The forgotten women) is a 1996 documentary film directed by Anne-Laure Folly of Togo and shot in Angola.
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Lionel Ngakane
Lionel Ngakane (17 July 1928 – 26 November 2003) was a South African filmmaker and actor.
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List of African films
The following is a list of African films.
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M. K. Asante
M.
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Mahamat Saleh Haroun
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (محمد الصالح هارون) (born 1961 in Abéché) is a film director from Chad who has lived in France since 1982.
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Mansour Sora Wade
Mansour Sora Wade (born 1952, in Dakar) is a Senegalese film director of Lebou people ancestry.
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Manthia Diawara
Manthia Diawara (born December 19, 1953) is a Malian writer, filmmaker, cultural theorist, scholar, and art historian.
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Mariam Ndagire
Mariam Ndagire (born 16 May 1971) is a Ugandan female singer, entertainer, actress, playwright, film director, and film producer.
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Marwan Hamed
Marwan Hamed (مروان حامد) (born 1977) is a young Egyptian film director.
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Med Hondo
Med Hondo (born Mohamed Abid Hondo, May 4, 1936) is a Mauritanian film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and voice actor.
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Mohamed Camara (film director)
Mohamed Camara (born 1959 in Conakry) is a Guinean film director and actor based in France.
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Mohamed Khan
Mohamed Hamed Hassan Khan (محمد حامد حسن خان; 26 October 1942 – 26 July 2016) was an Egyptian-British film director, screenwriter, and actor.
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Moi, un noir
Moi, un noir ("Me, a Black "; also released as I, a Negro) is a 1958 French ethnofiction film directed by Jean Rouch.
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Moustapha Alassane
Moustapha Alassane (1942–17 March 2015) was a Nigerien filmmaker.
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Music video
A music video is a short film that integrates a song with imagery, and is produced for promotional or artistic purposes.
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Neocolonialism
Neocolonialism, neo-colonialism or neo-imperialism is the practice of using capitalism, globalization and cultural imperialism to influence a developing country in lieu of direct military control (imperialism) or indirect political control (hegemony).
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Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north.
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Nii Kwate Owoo
Nii Kwate Owoo (born 1944) is a Ghanaian academic and filmmaker, described by Variety as "one of the first Ghanaians to lense in 35mm".
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Nollywood
Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry.
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Octavio Getino
Octavio Getino (August 6, 1935 in León, Spain – October 1, 2012) was an Argentine film director and writer who is best known for co-founding, along with Fernando Solanas, the Grupo Cine Liberación and the school of Third Cinema.
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Ohio University Press
Ohio University Press (OUP), founded in 1947, is the largest scholarly press in the state of Ohio.
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Ola Balogun
Ola Balogun (born 1 August 1945) is a Nigerian filmmaker and scriptwriter.
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Oliver Hermanus
Oliver Hermanus (born 1983, Cape Town, South Africa) is a South African film director and writer.
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Oral literature
Oral literature or folk literature corresponds in the sphere of the spoken (oral) word to literature as literature operates in the domain of the written word.
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Organisation of African Unity
The Organisation of African Unity (OAU; Organisation de l'unité africaine (OUA)) was established on 25 May 1963 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with 32 signatory governments.
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Oumarou Ganda
Oumarou Ganda (1935 – 1 January 1981) was a Nigerien director and actor who helped bring African cinema to international attention in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Ousmane Sembène
Ousmane Sembène (1 January 1923 – 9 June 2007), often credited in the French style as Sembène Ousmane in articles and reference works, was a Senegalese film director, producer and writer.
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Pan African Federation of Filmmakers
The Pan African Federation of Filmmakers (Fédération Panafricaine des Cinéastes, or FEPACI), formed in 1969 and inaugurated in 1970, is "the continental voice of filmmakers from various regions of Africa and the Diaspora", focusing attention on the promotion of African film industries in terms of production, distribution and exhibition.
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Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou
The Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (Festival panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision de Ouagadougou or FESPACO) is a film festival in Burkina Faso, held biennially in Ouagadougou, where the organization is based.
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Paris
Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.
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Paulin Soumanou Vieyra
Paulin Soumanou Vieyra (31 January 1925 – 4 November 1987) was a Beninese/Senegalese film director and historian.
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Political cinema
Political cinema in the narrow sense of the term is a cinema which portrays current or historical events or social conditions in a partisan way in order to inform or to agitate the spectator.
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Portuguese Colonial War
The Portuguese Colonial War (Guerra Colonial Portuguesa), also known in Portugal as the Overseas War (Guerra do Ultramar) or in the former colonies as the War of Liberation (Guerra de Libertação), was fought between Portugal's military and the emerging nationalist movements in Portugal's African colonies between 1961 and 1974.
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René Vautier
René Vautier (15 January 1928 – 4 January 2015) was a French film director.
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S. Pierre Yameogo
S.
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Safi Faye
Safi Faye (born November 22, 1943) is a Senegalese film director and ethnologist.
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Salah Abu Seif
Salah Abu Seif (صلاح أبو سيف) (May 10, 1915 – June 23, 1996) was one of the most famous Egyptian film directors, and is considered to be the godfather of Neorealist cinema in Egypt.
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Salem Mekuria
Salem Mekuria (born 1947) is an Ethiopian-born independent filmmaker, video artist and educator living in the United States.
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Sambizanga (film)
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Sandra Nashaat
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Sarah Maldoror
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Sembene!
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Senegal
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Shadi Abdel Salam
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Sherif Arafa
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Shirley Frimpong-Manso
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Social conservatism
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Soleil O
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Somaliwood
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Souleymane Cissé
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South Africa
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Tade Ogidan
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Tarek Al Eryan
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Tarzan
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The African Queen (film)
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The Wedding Party (2016 film)
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Third Cinema
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This Is Nollywood
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Tsitsi Dangarembga
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Tunde Kelani
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Tunisia
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University of California Press
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University of Chicago Press
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Usama Mukwaya
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Wanuri Kahiu
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West Africa
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William Kentridge
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Women's cinema
Women's cinema is a variety of topics bundled together to create the work of women in film.
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World cinema
World cinema is not the sum-total of all films made around the world.
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Yaba Badoe
Yaba Badoe (born 1955) is a Ghanaian-British documentary filmmaker, journalist and author.
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Yeelen
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Yousry Nasrallah
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Youssef Chahine
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Zed Books
Zed Books is an independent non-fiction publishing company based in London, UK.
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Zeka Laplaine
Zeka Laplaine (born 1960), sometimes credited as José Laplaine, is a director and actor from Ilebo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Zola Maseko
Zola Maseko (born 1967) is a Swazi film director and screenwriter.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Africa
