Contemporary African Screen Worlds

Lindiwe Dovey is Professor of Film and Screen Studies, SOAS University of London.AÑulika Agina is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos.Michael W. Thomas is Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies, SOAS University of London.

“Through the evocative concept of screen worlds, this exciting volume models an ethical, reflexive approach to undertaking African studies with resources from the Global North. The result is an original volume that centers Africa and the experiences of Africans in their relationships to screen worlds. Ambitiously laying out the fascinating dimensions of film practices across the continent, the volume foregrounds the agency of Africans, who appear strongly as participants in rapidly changing screen worlds that exploit the affordances of new media.” - Cajetan Iheka, author of (African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics) “Contemporary African Screen Worlds is a highly engaging and cutting-edge collection that offers a snapshot in a dynamic slide show about changing technologies and screen worlds across the continent. Toggling back between the global and the local while focusing as much on global platforms like Netflix as it does on practices of domestic workers watching Nollywood films in Kenya, this volume carefully attends to the messy and contradictory ways people engage with all types of screens.” - Lindsey B. Green-Simms, author of (Queer African Cinemas)

• Foreword / Jonathan Haynes  ixAcknowledgments  xvIntroduction: Exploring Screen Worlds / Lindiwe Dovey, AÑulika Agina, and Michael W. Thomas  1Part I. Mobile Screen Worlds and the Televisual Turn in Africa1. We Need New Screens: MTV Shuga Naija, Youth Sexual Agency, and the “Mobile Screen” / Temitayo Olofinlua  192. MaÎtresse d’un homme mariÉ: Retracing Womanhood in Senegalese Screen Worlds / Estrella Sendra  353. Netflix: The Enabling Disruptor in Nigeria / AÑulika Agina  534. Examining the “Opportunities”: N-Net’s Zambezi Magic Channel and the Emerging Zambian Film Industry / Elastus Mambwe  75Part II. Crafting the Production and Circulation of African Screen Worlds5. From Intrastructures to Treehouses: Circulations in Nollywood Distribution, Locations, and Craft / Alexander Bud  916. Entrepreneurialism and Enterprise: Film Students Redefining Ghana’s Creative Landscape / Dennis-Brook Prince Lotsu  1137. South Africa’s Female Only Filmmakers Project: From On-Screen to Calling the Shots / Lindiwe Dovey  1278. Female Film Entrepreneurs in Ghana: Shirley Frimpong-Manso and Evelyn Asampana in Focus / Robin Steedman and Rashida Resario  139Part III. Engendering Screen Representation, Spectatorship, and Curation9. Domestic Disturbance: Afro-Feminist Poetics in Dilman Dila’s Ugandan “Horror Romances” / Nedine Moonsamy  15310. Fashioning African Screen Worlds: La noire de . . . and Les saignantes / Alexandra Grieve  16711. Nollywood Cinema and Its Housemaids’ Fandom: The Case of Eldoret, Kenya / Soloman Waliaula  18512. Archival Films in Contemporary Archives: Fragmented Legacies of a North African Women’s Film Heritage / Stefanie Van de Peer  201Part IV. Theatrical Screen Worlds: In the Church, Cinemas, Video Halls, and Hills13. Cinema in the Church: The Evangelical Film Worldview in Nigeria / Elizabeth Olayiwola  21714. Tezeta in Motion: A Glimpse into a Performative Ethiopian Screen World / Michael W. Thomas and Asteway M. Woldemichael  23315. Hillywood and Beyond: Forms of Spectatorship and Screen Worlds in Rwanda / Alison Macaulay  24516. FESPACO @ Fifty: Forms, Formats, Platforms, and African Screen Media / Pier Paolo Frassinelli  257Part V. Transnational Screen Worlds: Music Video in Africa, Beyond, and Back17. Music Video and the Transnationalism of Nigerian Screen Media: Watching Falz’s “This is Nigera” /  Femi Eromosele  26918. Rolling to “A-Free-Ka”: Seeing and Hearing the Transmedia Screen Worlds of Kahlil Joseph’s “Cheeba” /  Joe Jackson  283Afterword 1. The Political Worlds of African Screen Media / Alessandro Jedlowski  297Afterword 2. Africa’s Contemporary Screen Media Era and Questions of Autonomy / Moradewun Adejunmobi  301Filmography  307References  311Contributors  337Index  343