This Reference Guide lists by name in alphabetical order, information available in print or on the Internet, relevant to Film/Media Analysis and Scholarship on African Women in Cinema: filmmakers, actors, producers, editors, organizers, critics, scholars and other cultural producers.
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Esther Adagala
“Women's Access to Decision Making in and through the Media with Particular Reference to the East African Situation”. Women in Communication Trust, 1994.
“Situation of Women and the Media in Africa”. Women in Communication Trust, 1993.
Africa Media Centre
Women in Film in Africa Conference: Overcoming Social Barriers - Call for Papers. (19-20 November 2011) Organised by the Africa Media Centre, University of Westminster.
African Training and Research Centre for Women/Voluntary Fund for the United Nations Decade for Women
Women and the Mass Media in Africa: Case Studies of Sierra Leone, the Niger and Egypt. Research Series, Addis Ababa, 1981.
Brice Ahounou
Mbeka Phoba, Monique. --Sorcière, la vie! Cahiers d’etudes africaines. 189-190, 2008.
Jude G. Akudinobi
"Durable Dreams: Dissent, Critique, and Creativity in Faat Kine and Moolaade." Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism. Volume 6.2 Spring, 2006.
Michel Amarger
"Réalisatrices d’Afrique: Les images d'Afrique aux féminins pluriels." Catalogue, Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil [France], 1998, pp. 90-94.
Regards de femmes. Documentary, 50 minutes, 2005.
Elma Lititia Anani
"Women's Image in the Sierra Leone Mass Media." Women and the Mass Media in Africa: Case Studies of Sierra Leone, the Niger and Egypt. African Training and Research Centre for Women/Voluntary Fund for the United Nations Decade for Women. Research Series, Addis Ababa, 1981, pp. 3-10.
Precious Anthony
MPhil Research Topic, University of Ghana School of Communication. “Gender representation in popular Ghanaian movies: a comparative analysis of work by male and female filmmakers”.
L’Association des professionnelles africaines de la communication (APAC)
Femmes, développement, communication: quelles perspectives pour Nairobi 1985? Proceedings from the seminar organized by BREDA, Dakar, Senegal, 1-10 October 1984.
L’Association des Femmes Africaines pour la Recherche et le Développement (AFARD). The Association of African Women for Research and Development (AAWORD)
La Recherche Féministe en Afrique : Avancées, Obstacles et Défis. (Feminist Research in Africa: Progress, Obstacles and Challenges). 30 Nov 2007. Dakar, Senegal.
Association of African Women for Research and Development/ AAWORD. L’Association des Femmes Africaines pour la Recherche et le Développement (AFARD)
Women and the Media in Africa. Occasional Paper Series, no. 6, Dakar, 1992.
Ada Azodo
"Gender and Sexuality in Africa: Apprizing my new book, Gender and Sexuality in African Literature and Film (Africa World Press, 2007)." Paper delivered at the 2007 African Literature Association Conference, West Virginia University.
Ada Uzoamaka Azodo and Maureen Ngozi Eke, ed.
Gender and Sexuality in African Literature and Film. New Jersey: Africa World Press, 2007.
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Françoise Balogun
"Visages de femmes dans le cinéma d’Afrique noire.” Présence Africaine (Special Issue: Le monde en mutation depuis 1989/The Changing World Since 1989: Dossier II Femmes du monde/Femmes d’Afrique-African Women/Women of the World), no. 153 [Paris], 1996, pp. 141-150.
Olivier Barlet
“La représentation de la femme dans les cinémas d'Afrique noire”. Africultures, 2004.
“Femmes et hommes dans les cinemas d’Afrique noire”. English version: Women and Men in Black African Film. Africultures.
Shelly Barry
"Disability and desire: journey of a filmmaker." Feminist Africa, Issue 6, 2006.
Laurentine Bayala
"Cinéma documentaire du Nord et du Sud : quels types de coopération ?". Groupe d’étude cinéma du réel africain. AfricaDoc Lussas. (Last accessed June 2011)
Viviane Békrou
"Engagement et critique sociale dans les téléfilms ivoiriens: le cas de Ma famille d’Akissi Delta et de Nafi de Ouattara Eugenie". Paper delivered at the 2009 African Literature Association Conference, University of Vermont.
Asmara Beraki
“Azanian filmmaking: Creating an African present.” Critical Arts Vol. 16, Issue 1, 2002, pp. 57-62.
Christiana G.E. Best
“African Women in Cinema: A Comparative Study of South Africa and Nigeria”. Paper delivered at the 2010 African Literature Association Meeting, University of Arizona, Tucson.
Lizelle Bischoff
Master Class entitled "Women in African Cinema: Questions of Absence and Presence". International Images Film Festival for Women. Harare, Zimbabwe, November 2011.
“Visions of Female Emancipation: three recent films from West Africa.” Journal of African Cinemas, July 2010.
Women in African Cinema: An aesthetic and thematic analysis of filmmaking by women in Francophone West Africa and Lusophone and Anglophone Southern Africa. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Stirling, UK, 2009.
Project: “Recovering Lost African Film Classics: Towards a History of Filmmaking by African Women", Edinburgh, 2007.
Paper: “Female Storytelling through Film: Women Directors in West African Cinema” at the African Studies Association UK conference at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, 2007.
"Women Making Movies: The female pioneers of African cinema and the launching of a tradition", University of Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, Nov 2007.
Ahmed Bouguarche
"Problèmes de femmes dans certains écrits et films francophones". Paper delivered at the 2008 African Literature Association Conference, Western Illinois University.
Sarah Bouyain
"Je suis née d'une mère française et d'un père burkinabé…" Africultures, January 2005. Part of the Metissages series.
Debra S. Boyd
Film: Jigeen bu jambar! Annette Mbaye d’Erneville: championne des femmes et militante culturelle. (Woman of Steel Annette Mbaye d’Erneville: Champion for Women and Cultural Militant) 18mn, French, 2008.
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Odile Cazenave
“Writing the Child, Youth, and Violence into the Francophone Novel from Sub-Saharan Africa: The Impact of Age and Gender.” Research in African Literatures - Volume 36, Number 2, Summer 2005, pp. 59-71.
Aurore Chaillou
Stratégies identitaires et littéraires dans l’oeuvre de Farida Belghoul et de Gaétan Soucy. Master’s Thesis in French. Texas Tech University, 2005.
Clar Ni Chonghaile
Cinema: African Women in the Spotlight. The Africa Report. January 10 2011.
Maria Coletti
“Water: Women looking in the mirror” (Agua. Mujeres que se miran al espejo). In Souleymane Cissé: With the Eyes of Eternity (Souleymane Cissé : Con los ojos de la eternidad) by Maria Coletti, Leonardo De Franceschi. Editorial Universidad de Granada, 2008.
Di diaspro e di corallo. L'immagine della donna nel cinema dell'Africa nera francofona, Marsilio (collana Biblioteca di Bianco & Nero. Saggistica) 2001. Of Jasper and Coral: Images of Women in Francophone Black African Cinema.
The Representation of Women in African Cinema. Doctoral Thesis in Italian at Roma Tre University Rome, 2000.
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Tsitsi Dangarembga
Current doctoral research: "The exotic has always already been known: changing the content of the black signifier as a means of improving reception of African films." Humboldt Universität, Berlin.
Keynote Address: "The Popular Arts and Culture in the Texture of the Public Sphere in Africa" at the 12th General Assembly of Codesria at Yaoundé, Cameroun, December 2008. (Last accessed June 2011)
Evelyne Delgado-Norris
"African Women and De/Colonization: Strategies of Resistance and Dynamics of Change in Senegalese Women's Literature and Film." Ph.D. Dissertation: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. 2003. 261p.
Michael Dembrow
Film Notes: Bedwin Hacker by Nadia El Fani
Film Notes: Everyone’s Child by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Film Notes: Faraw! by Abdoulaye Ascofaré
Film Notes: Kare Kare Zvako by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Film Notes: Karmen Gei by Joseph Gaï Ramaka
Film Notes: Madame Brouette by Moussa Sene Absa
Film Notes: Moolaade by Ousmane Sembene
Film Notes: Nha Fala by Flora Gomes
Film Notes: Sisters of the Screen by Beti Ellerson
Film Notes: Taafa Fanga by Adama Drabo
Film Notes: Tableau Ferraille by Moussa Sene Absa
Rokhaya Oumar Diagne and Souleymane Bachir Diagne
“Annette Mbaye d’Erneville: Une femme de communication/Annette Mbaye d’Erneville: A Lady with a Talent for Communication.” Présence Africaine (Special Issue: Le monde en mutation depuis 1989/The Changing World Since 1989: Dossier II Femmes du monde/Femmes d’Afrique-African Women/Women of the World), no. 153, 1996, pp. 93-100.
Claire Diao Link to Bio
La présence noire dans le cinéma en France. Africultures, May 2010.
Le 32e Festival du Film de Femmes de Creteil rend hommage a Safi Faye. Africultures, Avril 2010.
L'Éthiopie initie son premier festival international de courts métrages: entretien de Claire Diao avec Maji-Da Abdi. Africultures, 23 February 2010.
Minky Schlesinger : "C'est parce que j'aime mon pays que je suis devenue réalisatrice" Africultures, 8 September 2009.
Aminata Ouedraogo : "Un jour, une femme remportera l'Étalon de Yennenga !" Africultures, 6 June 2009.
Nadège Batou ou la recherche de l'eau. Africultures, 11 May 2009.
Fatou Diome
“Cinéma Africain, une caméra à l’épaule de l’histoire.” 50 ans de Cinéma Africain, La Cinémathèque Française, 2008.
Sophie Dulucq
« Visages de femmes » au miroir du cinéma d'Afrique noire (des années 1960 aux années 1990). Clio Histoire, femmes et sociétés (Femmes d’Afrique), 1997.
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Ecrans d'Afrique/African Screen
Published by FEPACI from 1992 to 1998
Ecrans d’Afrique/African Screen N°1 - 1992
Profile of Fanta Nacro, Burkina Faso-Director, p35
Cinema africain au féminin. Un difficile enfantement/African women in cinema. A difficult childbirth. Summary of the Historical African Women in the Cinema Workshop, FESPACO 1991, by Emmanuel Sama - p69
Ecrans d’Afrique/African Screen N°2 - 1992
At a Glance: Film review of Saikati by Kenyan filmmaker Anne Mungai, p29
Profile of Funmi Osoba, Nigerian director by Françoise Kaboré, p70
Interview with Oumou Sy, Senegalese costume designer by Alessandra Speciale, p104
Profile of Anne-Laure Folly, Togolese director by Clément Tapsoba, p36
Ecrans d’Afrique/African Screen N°3 - 1993
Flash: African Women in Film and Video - Kenya section, p5
Profile of Nadia El Fani, Tunisia-Director, p45
Profile of Mouna Fettou, Moroccoan actress by Amadou Gaye, p43
Profile of Aminata Zouré, Burkinabé make-up artist by Cheick Kolla Maiga, p87
Ecrans d’Afrique/African Screen N°4 - 1993
Interview with Akosua Busia, Ghanaian actress, by Macy Domingo and Klevor Abo, p6
Ecrans d’Afrique/African Screen N°5-6 - 1993
Interview with Izza Genini, Moroccoan director by Thérèse-Marie Deffontaines, p8
Women filmmakers in Morocco. Profiles of Farida Benlyazid, Touda Bouanani, Farida Bourquia, Izza Genini, Imane Mesbahi, by Amadou Gaye, p10-11
N'daw, Aly N'Keury “Zalika Souley: Star of Niger Films”, p28
Profile of Joyce Makwenda, Zimbabwean director by Clément Tapsoba, p39
Profile of Franceline Oubda, Burkinabé director by Clément Tapsoba, p40
Ecrans d’Afrique/African Screen N°7 - 1994
A Threefold Trial: African, Female and Actress. Portrait of Naky Sy Savane, of Côte d’Ivoire and Félicité Wouassi, Cameroon, by Alessandra Speciale, p24
Ecrans d’Afrique/African Screen N°8 - 1994
Profile of Margaret Fombé Fobé, Cameroonian director by Clément Tapsoba, p27
Profile of Kadiatou Konaté, Malian director by Jadot Sezirahiga, p28
Interview with Kahena Attia, Tunisian Chief Film Editor by Françoise Kaboré, p67
Ecrans d’Afrique/African Screen N°9-10 - 1994
Flash: "Fifth Women's Regional Conference in preparation for the Beijing Conference, p5
At a Glance: Film review of Retrouver Oulad Moumen by Izza Genini, Moroccan director, p26
Profile of Viola Shafik, Tunisian director by Alessandra Speciale, p32
Profile of Monique Phoba, Democratic Republic of Congo director by Sambolgo Bangre
Review of Femmes d'images de l'Afrique francophone by Najwa Tlili by Lynn Bettis
Ecrans d’Afrique/African Screen N°11 - 1995
Flash: National Bureau of the Pan African Union of Women in the Image Industry of Gabon, p5
Flash: Pan-African Union of Women in the Image Industry, p5
Profile of Burkinabé filmmaker Sarah Bouyain (who at the time was assistant director) by Clément Tapsoba, p18
At a Glance: Film review of The Battle of the Sacred Tree by Kenyan filmmaker Wanjiru Kinyanjui, p24
At a Glance: Film review of Léon G. Damas by Guadeloupian filmmaker Sarah Maldoror, p24
The Female Body, Culture and Space: The Female Body in African Cinema, by Beti Ellerson, p28
Ecrans d’Afrique/African Screen N°12 - 1995
Interview with Sarah Maldoror, Guadeloupean director by Jadot Sezirahiga, p6
Interview with Hafsa Z. Koudil, Algerian director by Cheick Kolla Maiga, p12
Profile of Oum Dierryla, Senegalese actress by Clément Tapsoba, p17
Profile of Dommie Yambo Odotte, Kenyan director, by Noufou Ouedraogo, p18
At a Glance: Film review of Ash-shaytan imra'/Le démon au féminin by Algerian filmmaker Hafsa Zinai Koudil, p34
At a Glance: Film review of Puk Nini by Burkinabé filmmaker Fanta Nacro, p59
Ecrans d’Afrique/African Screen N°13-14 - 1996
Flash: Chad - A Fatwa Against Zara Yacoub, p7
Profile of Abiba Diarra, Ivorian-Malian Actress, by Sambolgo Bangre, p35
At a Glance: Film review of La Danse du feu by Tunisian filmmaker Selma Baccar, p49
Alone: A Film about a Family in Zimbabwe by Zimbabwean filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga, by Françoise Kaboré and Sakbolé, p62
Ecrans d’Afrique/African Screen N°15 - 1996
Flash: "South Africa: Women in Cinema, p7
At a Glance: Film review of Puk Nini by Fanta Nacro, Burkinabé filmmaker, p37
Excerpt from an interview with Asma al Bakri, Egyptian director by Ahmed Atef, p61
Ecrans d’Afrique/African Screen N°16 - 1996
At a Glance: Film review of Mossane by Senegalese filmmaker, Safi Faye, p34
Recidak 96: When the Women of Cinema Take Action! By Cheriff Amadou Diop, p39
Ecrans d’Afrique/African Screen N°17/18 - 1996
Flash: "Zimbabwe: An Association of Women Filmmakers, p7
At a Glance: Film review of Honey and Ashes by Nadia Fares, Tunisian filmmaker, p17
At a Glance: Film review of Everyone's Child by Tsitsi Dangarembga, Zimbabwean filmmaker, p27
When Women Standup, African Cinema Moves. Interview with Martine Ilboudo Condé, Guinea/Burkina Faso director by Clément Tapsoba, p22
Female Scoop in Harare by Françoise Kaboré, p84
Aids in the City. Interview with Hanny Brigitte Tchelley, Ivoirian Actress/TV Producer, Clément Tapsoba, p88
Ecrans d’Afrique/African Screen N°19 - 1997
The Women of FESPACO 97: Valérie Kaboré or the filmmaker 'of all trades' by Clément Tapsoba, p35
Ecrans d’Afrique/African Screen N°20 - 1997
Mariam Kaba en positif/Mariam Kaba thinks positive, par/by Anne Khady Sé - p36
Ecrans d’Afrique/African Screen N°21-22 - 1997
Do They Remember Us. Interview with Shirikiana Aina, USA director by Beti Ellerson, p8
Portrait of Palesa Letlaka-Nkosi, South African director by Corinne Miglioli, p41
At a Glance: Film review of Pour le plaisir des yeux by Izza Genini, Moroccan filmmaker, p45
Discovery of a Festival by Wabei Siyolwe, p55
The Variety of African Cultures by Wabei Siyolwe, p67
Ecrans d’Afrique/African Screen N°23 - 1998
[Cuban filmmaker] Gloria Rolando on Slavery by William Tanifeani, p86
Ecrans d’Afrique/African Screen N°24 - 1998
Anta and Lingère: Portraits of Women by Nike Morganti, p54
Djibril and La Petite Vendeuse: The Suspended flight of Djibril by Michel Amarger, p68
Ousmane Sembene, The Suburb of Women by Baba Diop. Sembene talks about his film Fat Kine by Baba Diop p91
Interview with Venus Seye, protagonist of Faat Kine by Ousmane Sembene by Baba Diop, p92.
Beti Ellerson
“African Women in Cinema: Past, Present, Future.” FilmAfrikana, Oslo, Norway, March-April 2011.
Beti Ellerson “The Evolution of Women in Cinema.” African Film Festival New York (founder and director Mahen Bonetti). Through African Eyes Volume 2: Conversations with the Directors; 2010. Featuring Mahen Bonetti with Françoise Bouffault; Ngozi Onwurah with Simon Onwurah; Fanta Régina Nacro with Guetty Felin; Zina Saro-Wiwa with Oladipo Agboluaje; Jihan El-Tahri with Alonzo Richo Speight; Osvalde Lewat and Katy Lena Ndiaye with Aurélien Bodinaux; Tsitsi Dangarembga with June Givanni; Dyana Gaye with James Schamus; Wanuri Kahiu, Judy Kibinge, and Lupita Nyong’o with Ekwa Msani-Omari.
“The Evolution of African Women in Cinema: A Historiography”. Keynote at the African Women Filmmakers Forum, Goethe Institut, Johannesburg, South Africa, September 2010.
The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. (African Women, Cinema and Islamic Cultures). Women, Gender and Women Film Directors and Film Stars: Sub-Saharan Africa, 2007.
"Through an African Woman's Eyes: Safi Faye’s Cinema. Françoise Pfaff, ed. Focus on African Film, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. “Safi Faye’s Gaze: The Evolution of An African Woman’s Cinema”, 2009.
Sisters of the Screen: Women of Africa on Film, Video and Television. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, 2000. Sisters of the Screen: Conversations with African Women in Cinema.
"The Female Body as Symbol of Change and Dichotomy: Conflicting Paradigms in the Representation of Women in African Film." Women with Open Eyes, Women and African Cinema, ed., Kenneth W. Harrow. Matatu 19, 1997, pp. 31-44. Internet Version
"The Female Body, Culture and Space: The Female Body in African Cinema." Ecrans d’Afrique, no. 11, 1st quarter, 1995, p. 28.
Emiliano
"La nudité dans le cinéma africain: Quand le nu chasse le beau." Amina, no. 253, May 1991, pp. 30-32. African women talk about nudity in African films: Hanny Brigitte Tchelley, Ivory Coast-Actress; Carmen Levry, Cote d’Ivoire-Actress.
Augustine-Ufua Enahoro
“Women in the Nigerian Home Video”. Paper delivered at the 2010 African Literature Association Meeting, University of Arizona, Tucson.
Chioma L. Enwerem
"Violence Against Women in Selected Nigerian Video Films and Novels." Paper delivered at the 2009 African Literature Association Conference, University of Vermont.
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Moussa Balla Fall
"Cinéma et identité chez Ousmane Sembène : Une réinvention de l’identité féminine dans Faat Kiné et Moolaadé." Paper delivered at the 2007 African Literature Association Conference, West Virginia University.
Angelica Fenner
“Aural Topographies of Migration in Yamina Benguigui's Inch'Allah dimanche.” Camera Obscura 22 2007: 93-127.
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
“Subjectivity at the Margins: The Cinema of Safi Faye.” Captive Bodies: Postcolonial Subjectivity in Cinema. State University of New York Press, 1999, pp. 192-201.
Andrea Frohne
“Silence is not Golden: Memory, Ethiopia and Filmmaker Salem Mekuria". Paper delivered at the 2008 African Literature Association Conference, Western Illinois University.
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Lisabeth Gant-Britton
“African Women and Visual Culture: A Sample Syllabus.” Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies/36, 1995, pp. 84-117. (Black Women, Spectatorship, and Visual Culture).
Lucy Gebre-Egziabher
“Digital Filmmaking: Panacea or Scourge for African Cinema.” Teret Productions, 2006.
Natasha Gordon-Chipembere
"The Impact of Sarah Baartman, “aka” the Hottentot Venus, on 21st-Century African and Diasporic Literary Representations of Black Women". Paper delivered at the 2007 African Literature Association Conference, West Virginia University.
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Claude Haffner
Le documentaire africain, un remède éventuel aux maux dont souffre le cinéma africain ?, Master's Thesis, La Sorbonne Nouvelle, October 2005.
Pierre Haffner
“Jean Rouch jugé par six cinéaste d’Áfrique noire: Safi Faye, Daniel Kamwa, Rihard de Medeiros, Moussa Yoro Bathily, Oumarou Ganda et Inoussa Ousseini.” Jean Rouch, un griot gaulois. CinéAction, ed. René Prédal. No 17, 1982.
Petit à Petit en question: le film de Jean Rouch discuté dans deux ciné-clubs d’Afrique noire. CinéAction, ed. René Prédal. No 17, 1982.
Kenneth Harrow
"Division, Disunity, Disturbance, and Difference: Safi Faye's Mossane and the Challenge of Postmodern Feminism. Less Than One and Double: A Feminist Reading of African Women's Writing . (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002), pp. 247-276.
Women with Open Eyes, Women and African Cinema, ed. Matatu 19, 1997.
"Women with Open Eyes, Women of Stone and Hammers: The Problematic Encounter between Western Feminism and African Feminist Filmmaking Practice." Women with Open Eyes, Women and African Cinema, ed., Kenneth W. Harrow. Matatu 19, 1997, pp. 133-149.
Julie Hawkins
Representatie Van En Door Vrouwen Op De Burkinese Televisie (Representation by Women on Burkinabe Television). Universiteit Gent Faculteit Letteren En Wijsbegeerte (Ghent University Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, 2001, PDF document, last accessed June 2011.
Sophie Hoffelt
“L’image des femmes maliennes à travers le regard d’un cineaste: Cheick Oumar Sissoko.” (Last accessed June 2010).
“Les Femmes réalisatrices en Afrique subsaharienne.” L’Afrique politique: Femmes d’Afrique, 1998, p. 21-44.
Kayissan D. Houenassou-Houangbe
"Les femmes des services de la communication au Togo." Women and the Media in Africa. Association of African Women for Research and Development/AAWORD, Occasional Paper Series, no. 6, Dakar, 1992, pp. 8-38.
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Ayesha Imam
"Ideology, Women and Mass Media: A Case Study in Kano, Nigeria." Women and the Media in Africa. Association of African Women for Research and Development/AAWORD, Occasional Paper Series, no. 6, Dakar, 1992, pp. 39-104.
Institut Panos Afrique de l’Ouest
Femmes africaines des médias: Portraits de journalists et de cineastes africaines 2005. (Last accessed December 2011).
Annette Mbaye d’Erneville by Boubacar Boris Diop in Femmes africaines des médias: Portraits de journalists et de cineastes africaines 2005. French to English translation.
International Development Research Center | Centre de recherches pour le développement international
Gender and the Information Revolution in Africa edited by Eva M. Rathgeber and Edith Ofwona Adera.,2000. (Last accessed December 2011).
L'inégalité des sexes et la révolution de l'information en Afrique, sous la direction d'Eva M. Rathgeber et d'Edith Ofwona Adera, 2000. (Dernière date accedée, décembre 2011).
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Tchomba Kabala, Amani/Cebia
“Rébellion ou émancipation féminine dans Moolaade, un film de Sembène Ousmane?”. Paper delivered at the 2010 African Literature Association Meeting, University of Arizona, Tucson.
Alkaly Miriam Keita
"Women's Image in the Niger Mass Media." Women and the Mass Media in Africa: Case Studies of Sierra Leone, the Niger and Egypt. African Training and Research Centre for Women/Voluntary Fund for the United Nations Decade for Women. Research Series, Addis Ababa, 1981, pp. 13-19.
David Kerr
"The reception of Nigerian video drama in a multicultural female community in Botswana". Journal of African Cinemas. Volume 3, Number 1, 2011.
Wanjiru Kinyanjui
“Creating a film audience in Kenya”, paper present at the Audio-Visual Conference, Pretoria/South Africa, 2008.
“Amateur Video filmmaking in River Road, Nairobi,“ paper presentation at the Video Arts Film Fest in Obafemi Awolowo University, 2007.
“A Director’s Experience” in: Africa Through the Eye of the Video Camera. Manzini, Swaziland. Academic Publishers, 2006.
Research paper on the booming River Road vernacular videos (Ford Foundation Grantee), 2005.
“Friede den Doefern” (Peace to all Villages: Change of perspective in African Cinema) in: Du Magazine, Dec/Jan 95/96, Switzerland, 2000.
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Sonia Lee
“Les Africaines à l’écran et derrière la caméra”. Notre Librarie : Revue des literatures du Sud (Cinemas d'Afrique), No. 149, Oct-Dec 2002, pp. 110-113.
Akissi Delphine Loukou (Akissi Delta)
“Ma famille: modèle d’autofinancement de la production filmique en Afrique francophone”. Paper delivered at the 2010 African Literature Association Meeting, University of Arizona, Tucson.
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Diana Adesola Mafe
“Misplaced Bodies: Probing Racial and Gender Signifiers in Ngozi Onwurah’s The Body Beautiful.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies - Volume 29, No. 1, 2008, pp. 37-50.
Penda Mbow
“Le féminisme, stimulant de la production culturelle chez les Africaines.” (Féminisme en Afrique) Tunisiennes d’aujourd’hui, 2008.
Mutheu Maitha
Paper delivered at the African Studies Association, USA, 2007: The Role of African Women Filmmakers in Addressing Issues of Human Security and Human Rights in Africa.
Chido Matewa
Case Study of Africa Women Filmmakers Trust in Media and the Empowerment of Communities for Social Change. A thesis submitted to the University of Manchester for the degree of PhD in the Faculty of Education, 2002. (Last accessed June 2011)
“The Role of the Media in the Subordination of Women in Africa.” Masters in Education and the Mass Media, University of Manchester 1997.
Salem Mekuria
Specificities; Other Cinema. (Post)Colonial Cinema, Rituals and African Womanhood. Social Identities 1999 5/4: 489-506.
Kari McGriff Miller
"Realities of Womanhood: Deconstructing Rape and Birth Metaphors in African Film." Paper delivered at the 2008 African Literature Association Conference, Western Illinois University.
Mildred Mortimer
“Nouveau regard, nouvelle parole: le cinéma d’Assia Djebar.” Women with Open Eyes, Women and African Cinema, ed., Kenneth W. Harrow. Matatu 19, 1997, pp. 93-110.
“Reappropriating the Gaze in Assia Djebar's Fiction and Film.” World Literature Today 70, no. 4. Autumn 1996, pp. 859-66.
Wanjiku Beatrice Mukora
"Beyond Tradition and Modernity: Representations of Identity in Two Kenyan Films." Women Filmmakers Refocusing, eds., Jacqueline Levitin, Judith Plessis, Valerie Raoul. University of British Columbia Press, 2003, pp. 219-228.
Disrupting Binary Divisions: Representation of Identity in Saikati and Battle of the Sacred Tree. Master's Thesis, McGill University, Montreal, 1999. (Last accessed June 2011).
David Murphy
“Mothers, Daughters and Prostitutes: The Representation of Women in Sembene’s Work.” Imagining Alternatives in Film and Fiction. James Currey and Africa World Press, 2000.
Hudita Nura Mustafa
“Eros, beauty and crisis: notes from Senegal.” Feminist Africa. Featuring the film Karmen Gei (2002) by Joseph Gaï Ramaka. Feministafrica (last accessed June 2011).
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Talibah Newman
“A Look at African Women in Cinema”. Associated Content, 22 September 2006.
Emilie Ngo-Nguidjol
“Focusing on Women in African Cinema: An Annotated Bibliography.” Women with Open Eyes, Women and African Cinema, ed., Kenneth W. Harrow. Matatu 19, 1997, pp. 191-218.
Hadja Maïmouna Niang
Doctoral research topic since 2004 : Litterature et cinema africains : un mariage dans le champ de creation d'ousmane sembene? l'exemple de la noire de..., le mandat, xala et guelwaar. Université Paris 12 Val-de-Marne.
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