African women's cinematic journeying: searching, rediscovering, becoming...rebirth

African women's cinematic journeying

…searching, becoming...rebirth by Beti Ellerson

African women of the screen navigate frontiers, negotiate relocations, displacements, re-emplacements, redefine home. Whether in African or extra-African environments, they inscribe these imaginaries in their films. Some relate fantastical possibilities, others autobiographical journeying, both of which problematize evolving identities on the timeline of their life stories. Hence, traveling, sojourning and relocating across myriad environments involve re-fashioning or ultimately expanding the identities of African women's cinemas.

These cinematic journeys, imaginary or real, follow itinerate paths, pauses and reshifts, stops and recovery. Hence, an exploration of African women's exilic peregrinations or peripatetic voyaging on re-imagined, (re)discovered, (re)discovered lives, landscapes.

Notes to continue…

A selection of articles on the African Women in Cinema Blog about African women's cinematic journeying (with ongoing updating):

Christiane Kouraogo: The Retour
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2022/01/christiane-kouraogo-le-retour-une-fable.html

Baya Medhaffar: Festina | Lente
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/11/baya-medhaffar-festina-lente.html

Souad Douibi: M9kawda
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/11/souad-douibi-m9kawda.html

Rim Temimi: Manco Moro
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/11/rim-temimi-manco-moro.html

Samantha Biffot: Mami Wata Series
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/10/samantha-biffot-mami-wata-serie-2021.html

Nina Khada: Je me suis mordue la langue
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/10/nina-khada-je-me-suis-mordue-la-langue.html

Matamba Kombila: Mundele n: blanche, étrangère
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2020/07/matamba-kombila-mundele-n-blanche.html

Nana Hadiza Akawala: Bibata est partie (Bibata is gone)
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2019/02/fespaco-2019-bibata-est-partie-bibata.html
 

Ng'endo Mukii's Kitwana's Journey, animation film
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2019/01/kitwanas-journey-animation-film-by.html

Laurentine Bayala: Au fantôme du père (To the Ghost of the Father)
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2018/06/mis-me-binga-2018-laurentine-bayala-au.html

Beti Ellerson: On-Screen Narratives, Off-Screen Lives
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2018/05/black-camera-on-screen-narratives-off.html

Beti Ellerson: Traveling Gazes
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2017/05/black-camera-spring-2017-beti-ellerson.html

Astrid Ariane Atodji: Suffering is a school of wisdom
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2015/03/laff-2015-astrid-ariane-atodji-la.html

Eliaichi Kimaro: Tracing her Tanzanian Roots
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2012/08/eliaichi-kimaro-tracing-her-tanzanian.html

Claude Haffner: Footprints of my other
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2012/03/claude-haffner-black-here-white-there.html

Theresa Traore Dahlberg: Taxi Sister
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2011/06/theresa-traore-dahlberg-and-taxi-sister.html

Iman Kamel: Beit Shaar | Nomad's Home
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2011/02/iman-kamel-beit-shaar-nomads-home.html

Sarah Bouyain: Notre etrangere | The Place in-between
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2011/02/sarah-bouyain-notre-etrangerethe-place.html

Gendered Representations of Africans in the French Hexagon
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2009/05/gendered-representations-of-africans.html