This thesis seeks to write a comprehensive history of documentary film in Africa, from the beginning of the cinema until the eve of independence in the late 1950s. It looks at documentary practice and ...

List of photographs and stills -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I. -- 1. Documentary Filmmaking in Africa : An Introduction. Defining documentary ; Documentary in Africa ; Early ...

Africa is producing some of the world’s most captivating documentaries, a genre that allows filmmakers to tell riveting stories that revisit the past while challenging the inequities of the present.

Every time I find myself working on an article on film, my thoughts inevitably circle back to Kenya’s film culture.I find myself asking random questions like, What happened to the people who went ...