Hollywood gloss and cinematic Afropology
Africa’s biggest filmmakers are rejecting Western demands for resolution and containment in cinema—instead embracing ambiguity, rupture, and silence as tools for historical reckoning of African stories.
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Fatoumata Bah
Fatoumata Bah is a graduate student at The New School studying Critical Journalism and Creative Publishing.
Between Harlem and home
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.