What exactly do we mean when we talk of African documentary film? Is there a canon, an authority that can help us define it as a discipline, profession and its scholars, in other words, which people and ideas belong to it as a genre and which do not?
Is African documentary film about Africa even when it is produced by a non-African? What about an African producing a documentary film about a non-African society? What if a documentary film is produced by a non-African, is about Africa, but with the producer as the narrator? We may also think of a documentary film about Africa that uses a non-African language.Do such films qualify as African?
Class,let us address these questions before our next meeting.
Dr. Wachanga
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
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