African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization

Michael T. Martin is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the Media School at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is editor or coeditor of several anthologies, including (with David C. Wall) The Politics and Poetics of Black Film: Nothing But a Man and Race and the Revolutionary Impulse in The Spook Who Sat by the Door. Martin directed and coproduced the award-winning feature documentary on Nicaragua, In the Absence of Peace, distributed by Third World Newsreel. Gaston Jean-Marie Kaboré is a film director, producer, and screenwriter and the former director of the Centre National du Cinéma in Burkina Faso.

"African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization combines theory and praxis as a means to explore the social, cultural, political, economic and gendered dynamics of African cinemas within a global context, all of which are determining factors in how African filmmaking practitioners and stakeholders negotiate their place as directors, producers, organizers, activists, scholars, distributors, cultural readers. The collection is an important addition to African Cinema Studies in particular, and the library of Film Studies in general."—Beti Ellerson, Founder and Director, Centre for the Study and Research of African Women in Cinema"Setting out, African Cinema positioned itself at the intersection of a theory and practice of cultural self-apprehension, with all the contradictions that come with that position. In this three-volume compendium, Martin, Kaboré and their various collaborators have provided a comprehensive, almost exhaustive, account eventuating in a third, element—history. A more comprehensive account will be hard to find anywhere else."—Akin Adesokan, Indiana University"This is a long-awaited volume of detailed, and analytical information and commentary that maps the development of the cinema of a large continent and the background ideas that have influenced its formation."—June Givanni, Director of the June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive (JGPACA)

• DedicationAcknowledgmentsAfrican Cinema and the Diasporic: Introductory Considerations, by Michael T. Martin and Gaston Jean-Marie KaboréPart I: Africa1958 Declaration and Resolutions of the Conference of Independent African States1968 Manifesto of New Cinema in Egypt1969 Pan-African Cultural Manifesto, Algiers, Algeria1969 Resolution on Inter-African Cultural Festival1970 Proposed Establishment of an All-African Cinema Union1970s Regulations of the Carthage Film Festival1972 Resolution on the Pan-African Film Festival of Ouagadougou1974Workshop Resolutions: Seminar on "The Role of the African Filmmaker in Rousing an Awareness of Black Civilization"1975The Algiers Charter on African Cinema1975The Accra Declaration on Cultural Policies1976Cultural Charter of Africa1977Cinematographic Art (FESTAC 77)1977Resolution of Commendation and Appreciation to the Federal Republic of Nigeria1980Regulations of the Pan-African Film Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO)1982Niamey Manifesto of African Filmmakers1984Final Communique, African Regional Film Workshop1986The Language Plan of Action for Africa1987Resolutions on the Development of Film and Endogenous and non-Endogenous Cultural Industries1989First International Day of Partnership (FEPACI)1989An Outlook on FEPACI1990Final Communique of the First Frontline Film Festival and Workshop1991Statement by the African Women Professionals of Cinema, Television, and Video1991The Status of the Audiovisual Sector in Africa1991Declaration of Windhoek1992African Audio-Visual Industries: Prospects and Strategies1992Cultural Industries for Development in Africa: Dakar Plan of Action1995Resolution on the Celebration of the Centenary of Film Invention2001African Charter on Broadcasting2002Accra Declaration on Public Service Broadcasting in West Africa2002Declaration of Principle on Freedom of Expression in Africa2006African Film Summit2009FEPACI Master Report: Selections2010 Queer African Manifesto/Declaration2010Manifesto: Conference of African Women Filmmakers2010Sollywood: A Movement2010Communique from the "Sustaining the New Wave of Pan-Africanism" Workshop2011The WEMF V Accra Declaration2013 African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedom2013 Declaration at the Second African Women in Film Forum2016The African Editors Forum (TAEF): Declaration on World Media Freedom Day2016 African Media Initiative2016Sisters Working in Film and Television (SWIFT)2017Manifesto of Ouagadougou, FESPACO 25th Edition2017The Surreal16 Collective Manifesto White Paper2018African Cinema Day: One Africa, One Cinema Project2003 & 2019 The African Audiovisual and Cinema Commission (AACC): Decision on the Establishment of an AACC (2003), Draft Statute of the AACC (2019)Part II: Black Diaspora1920 Declaration of the Rights of Negro Peoples of the World1945Selections from the Declarations and Resolutions of the Fifth Pan-African Congress1956First Congress of Negro Writers and Artists1958 Appeal: The Unity and Responsibilities of African Negro Culture1959Second Congress of Negro Writers and Artists1965An Esthetic of Hunger1969Black Manifesto1970Towards a Third Cinema1972 Manifesto of the Palestinian Cinema Group1973Resolutions of the Third World Filmmakers Meeting1974The Resolution on Culture, Sixth Pan-African Congress1974 Final Resolutions: International Conference for a New Cinema1983Black Independent Filmmaking: A Statement by the Black Audio Film Collective1983Symposium Declaration: Third Eye – Struggle for Black & Third World Cinema1983NAMEDIA Declaration1986 Inauguration of the San Antonio de Los Baños International School of Cinema and Television1990FeCAVIP Manifesto1990Audiovisual Market Caught Between the Chances in the North and South-South Cooperation1991Special Broadcasting Service Charter1992Caribbean Film and Video Federation: A Report1993Working Group: Women in Cinema, Television, and Video Workshop1994Resolution of the Seventh Pan-African Congress1995Pan-African Union of Women of the Moving Image (UPAFI)1999 Dogma Feijoada1999Tunis Declaration for the Defense of National Cinemas2003Dakar Declaration on the Promotion of ACP Cultures and Cultural Industries2003National Cultural Policy of Jamaica: Towards Jamaica the Cultural Superstate2003Towards a Protocol for Filmmakers Working with Indigenous Content and Indigenous Communities2004 Poor Cinema Manifesto2005Principles of Kaupapa Māori2006Santo Domingo Resolution From the 2nd Meeting of the ACP Ministers of Culture2008Jollywood Manifesto2009 Brussels Declaration by Artists and Cultural Professionals and EntrepreneursAnnex to the Brussels Declaration: The Cinema and Audiovisual Sector as a Factor of Development (2009)2009Afrosurreal Manifesto: Black is the New black—A 21st-Century Manifesto2011-14 ABCD CINEMA: Filmmakers of Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean, and their Diasporas: Final Declaration of the First Meeting of ABCD CINEMA (2011): Final Declaration of the Second Meeting of ABCD CINEMA (2012): Final Declaration of the Third Meeting of ABCD CINEMA (2013: Cameras of Diversity (2012-2014)2012The Association for the Advancement of Cinematic Creative Maladjustment: A Manifesto2012Forty Years of Cinema by Women of Africa2013Tela Preta Manifesto2013 Trinidad and Tobago Declaration on Developing the Caribbean Film Industry2013The New Negress Film Society2015Resolutions of the Eighth Pan-African Congress2016"Black Is" and That's the Beauty of It: Ten Propositions Concerning the Visible and the Visual, in Consideration of Black Cinema and Black Visual Culture2016Report on the Launch of the African Women Filmmakers Hub2016Cinema Pasifika: Developing the narrative film and television sector in the Pacific Island region2017Pan-African Alliance of Screenwriters and Filmmakers (APASER)2018More Shamans, less intolerance! An Indigenous Manifesto at Berlin Film Festival2018Kia Manawanui: Kaupapa Māori Film Theoretical Framework2019Reclaiming Black Film and Media Studies2021The New Normal: A Manifesto to Create a Safe Space, Free of Racism, for the Black Artist