African Experiences of Cinema Book

	Preface and Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
	Resolutions of the Third World Film-Makers' Meeting, Algiers, Algeria, 1973	17
	The Algiers Charter on African Cinema, 1975	25
	Niamey Manifesto of African Film-Makers, 1982	27
	Final Communique of the First Frontline Film Festival and Workshop, Harare, Zimbabwe, 1990	31
	Statement of African Women Professionals of Cinema, Television and Video, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 1991	35
	What Is Cinema for Us?	39
	African Cinema and the Headshrinkers: Looking Back at a Strategy for Liberation	42
	To Make a Film Means to Take a Position	45
	On Inspiration	48
	African Cinema - Militancy or Entertainment?	60
	Responsibility and Freedom of Expression	65
	Cinema and Freedoms: Reflections of a Senegalese Film-Maker	67
	Freedom: The Power to Say No	70
	Cinema and Development in Africa	72
	Apartheid and Cinema	83
	The Present Situation of the Film Industry in Anglophone Africa	102
	France's Bureau of Cinema - Financial and Technical Assistance 1961-1977: Operations and Implications for African Cinema	112
	State Initiatives and Encouragement in the Development of National Cinema: Mozambique	128
	Portuguese African Cinema: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives 1969-1993	132
	African Films are Foreigners in their Own Countries	148
	African Cinema in the Tempest of Minor Festivals	157
	'African' Cinema: Theoretical Perspectives on Some Unresolved Questions	165
	South/South Axis: For a Cinema Built by, with and for Africans	175
	Images of Women	181
	Black African Feminist Film-Making?	185
	Reclaiming Images of Women in Film from Africa and the Black Diaspora	194
	Popular Culture and Oral Traditions in African Film	209
	Africa from Within: The Films of Gaston Kabore and Idrissa Ouedraogo as Anthropological Sources	223
	History and Actuality in Ousmane Sembene's Ceddo and Djibril Diop Mambety's Hyenas	239
	Eroticism and Sub-Saharan African Films	252
	Further Readings	262
	Notes on Contributors	263
	Index	265