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From the proselytizing lantern slides of early Christian missionaries to contemporary films that look at Africa through an African lens; N. Frank Ukadike explores the development of black African cinema. He examines the impact of culture and history; and of technology and co-production; on filmmaking throughout Africa.Every aspect of African contact with and contribution to cinematic practices receives attention: British colonial cinema; the thematic and stylistic diversity of the pioneering "francophone" films; the effects of television on the motion picture industry; and patterns of television documentary filmmaking in "anglophone" regions. Ukadike gives special attention to the growth of independent production in Ghana and Nigeria; the unique Yoruba theater-film tradition; and the militant liberationist tendencies of "lusophone" filmmakers. He offers a lucid discussion of oral tradition as a creative matrix and the relationship between cinema and other forms of popular culture. And; by contrasting "new" African films with those based on the traditional paradigm; he explores the trends emerging from the eighties and nineties.Clearly written and accessible to specialist and general reader alike; Black African Cinemas analysis of key films and issuesmdash;the most comprehensive in Englishmdash;is unique. The books pan-Africanist vision heralds important new strategies for appraising a cinema that increasingly attracts the attention of film students and Africanists.