• Fatoumata Bah

African postcolonial cinema serves as a mirror, revealing the limits of escape — whether through migration or personal defiance — and exposing the tensions between dreams and reality.

• Tsogo Kupa

As Africa’s first filmmakers made their unique steps in Africanizing cinema, few were as bold as Djibril Diop Mambéty who employed cinema to service his dreams.

• Steffan Horowitz

Martin Scorsese digitally restores Djibril Diop Mambéty’s masterpiece Touki Bouki.

• Basia Cummings

Djibril Diop Mambéty's film "Touki Bouki" is an excellent example of how the contemporary can be read through the (re)construction of myths and narratives from a collective memory.