Aboubakar Sanogo’s presentation on colonial cinema in Africa
Drawing on examples of 1930s colonial Central and East Africa, Prof. Aboubakar Sanogo (Film Studies and African Studies) provides a discussion of the importance of looking at the history of colonialism when examining the history of cinema at the Il Cinema Ritrovato (“Cinema Rediscovered”) festival in Bologna, Italy, 4 July 2015.
Prof. Sanogo was also at Il Cinema Ritrovato to curate the program on one of the earliest African documentary filmmakers, the Tunisian innovator, Albert Samama Chikly, who was a pioneer both in the documentary and the fiction film modes (more details here).
See a video of Prof. Sanogo’s presentation here. For a review of the festival itself, please visit here.