Lindiwe Dovey, Añulika Agina, and Michael W. Thomas, editors

Foreword / Jonathan Haynes ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: Exploring Screen Worlds / Lindiwe Dovey, Añulika Agina, and Michael W. Thomas 1
Part I. Mobile Screen Worlds and the Televisual Turn in Africa
1. We Need New Screens: MTV Shuga Naija, Youth Sexual Agency, and the “Mobile Screen” / Temitayo Olofinlua 19
2. Maîtresse d’un homme marié: Retracing Womanhood in Senegalese Screen Worlds / Estrella Sendra 35
3. Netflix: The Enabling Disruptor in Nigeria / Añulika Agina 53
4. Examining the “Opportunities”: N-Net’s Zambezi Magic Channel and the Emerging Zambian Film Industry / Elastus Mambwe 75
Part II. Crafting the Production and Circulation of African Screen Worlds
5. From Intrastructures to Treehouses: Circulations in Nollywood Distribution, Locations, and Craft / Alexander Bud 91
6. Entrepreneurialism and Enterprise: Film Students Redefining Ghana’s Creative Landscape / Dennis-Brook Prince Lotsu 113
7. South Africa’s Female Only Filmmakers Project: From On-Screen to Calling the Shots / Lindiwe Dovey 127
8. Female Film Entrepreneurs in Ghana: Shirley Frimpong-Manso and Evelyn Asampana in Focus / Robin Steedman and Rashida Resario 139
Part III. Engendering Screen Representation, Spectatorship, and Curation
9. Domestic Disturbance: Afro-Feminist Poetics in Dilman Dila’s Ugandan “Horror Romances” / Nedine Moonsamy 153
10. Fashioning African Screen Worlds: La noire de . . . and Les saignantes / Alexandra Grieve 167
11. Nollywood Cinema and Its Housemaids’ Fandom: The Case of Eldoret, Kenya / Soloman Waliaula 185
12. Archival Films in Contemporary Archives: Fragmented Legacies of a North African Women’s Film Heritage / Stefanie Van de Peer 201
Part IV. Theatrical Screen Worlds: In the Church, Cinemas, Video Halls, and Hills
13. Cinema in the Church: The Evangelical Film Worldview in Nigeria / Elizabeth Olayiwola 217
14. Tezeta in Motion: A Glimpse into a Performative Ethiopian Screen World / Michael W. Thomas and Asteway M. Woldemichael 233
15. Hillywood and Beyond: Forms of Spectatorship and Screen Worlds in Rwanda / Alison Macaulay 245
16. FESPACO @ Fifty: Forms, Formats, Platforms, and African Screen Media / Pier Paolo Frassinelli 257
Part V. Transnational Screen Worlds: Music Video in Africa, Beyond, and Back
17. Music Video and the Transnationalism of Nigerian Screen Media: Watching Falz’s “This is Nigera” / Femi Eromosele 269
18. Rolling to “A-Free-Ka”: Seeing and Hearing the Transmedia Screen Worlds of Kahlil Joseph’s “Cheeba” / Joe Jackson 283
Afterword 1. The Political Worlds of African Screen Media / Alessandro Jedlowski 297
Afterword 2. Africa’s Contemporary Screen Media Era and Questions of Autonomy / Moradewun Adejunmobi 301
Filmography 307
References 311
Contributors 337
Index 343