Introduction: engaging African cinema
"There is no conversation here, my boy": spectral returns of Fanon and Hegel in Bassek Ba Kobhio's The great white man of Lambaréné
The language you govern in: the rise and fall of the African despot in Balufu Bakupa Kanyinda's Le damier: Papa national oyé and Cheick Oumar Sissoko's Guimba the tyrant
Nostalgic memories and nomadic spirits: Merzak Allouache's Bab-el-oued and Karim Dridi's Bye-bye
Allegorizing the quest for autonomy: Cheick Oumar Sissoko's Finzan and Amadou Seck's Saaraba
Writing the soxual order: Ousmane Sembåne's Faat Kiné and Ngangura Mweze's La vie est belle
Cogito must have gone crazy: construction and/as deconstruction of masculinity in Nouri Bouzid's Bent familia and Mufida Tlatli's The silences of the palace
Keita: the heritage of the griot: economic, social, and cultural organization of ancient Africa
Crisis in French Africa as hexagonal possibility: globalization à la françiaise
"There is no trade going on there": tales from the killing fields of the Congo
Conclusion.