Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers readers a researched critique on black film. Volume Three of this landmark series on African cinema spans the past century and is devoted to the documentation of decoloniality in cultural policy in both Africa and the Black diaspora worldwide. A compendium of formal resolutions, declarations, manifestos, and programmatic statements, it chronologically maps the long history and trajectories of cultural policy in Africa and the Black Atlantic. Beginning with the 1920 declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World, which anticipates cinema as we know it today, and the formal oppositional assertions-aspirational and practical. The first part of this work references formal statements that pertain directly to cultural policy and cinematic formations in Africa, while the next part addresses the Black diaspora. Each entry is chronologically ordered to account for when the statement was created, followed by where and in what context it was enunciated.
Michael T. Martin is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the Media School at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is editor or coeditor of several anthologies, including (with David C. Wall) The Politics and Poetics of Black Film: Nothing But a Man and Race and the Revolutionary Impulse in The Spook Who Sat by the Door. Martin directed and coproduced the award-winning feature documentary on Nicaragua, In the Absence of Peace, distributed by Third World Newsreel. Gaston Jean-Marie Kabore is a film director, producer, and screenwriter and the former director of the Centre National du Cinema in Burkina Faso.
Dedication Acknowledgments African Cinema and the Diasporic: Introductory Considerations, by Michael T. Martin and Gaston Jean-Marie Kabore Part I: Africa 1958 Declaration and Resolutions of the Conference of Independent African States 1968 Manifesto of New Cinema in Egypt 1969 Pan-African Cultural Manifesto, Algiers, Algeria 1969 Resolution on Inter-African Cultural Festival 1970 Proposed Establishment of an All-African Cinema Union 1970s Regulations of the Carthage Film Festival 1972 Resolution on the Pan-African Film Festival of Ouagadougou 1974Workshop Resolutions: Seminar on "The Role of the African Filmmaker in Rousing an Awareness of Black Civilization" 1975The Algiers Charter on African Cinema 1975The Accra Declaration on Cultural Policies 1976Cultural Charter of Africa 1977Cinematographic Art (FESTAC 77) 1977Resolution of Commendation and Appreciation to the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1980Regulations of the Pan-African Film Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) 1982Niamey Manifesto of African Filmmakers 1984Final Communique, African Regional Film Workshop 1986The Language Plan of Action for Africa 1987Resolutions on the Development of Film and Endogenous and non-Endogenous Cultural Industries 1989First International Day of Partnership (FEPACI) 1989An Outlook on FEPACI 1990Final Communique of the First Frontline Film Festival and Workshop 1991Statement by the African Women Professionals of Cinema, Television, and Video 1991The Status of the Audiovisual Sector in Africa 1991Declaration of Windhoek 1992African Audio-Visual Industries: Prospects and Strategies 1992Cultural Industries for Development in Africa: Dakar Plan of Action 1995Resolution on the Celebration of the Centenary of Film Invention 2001African Charter on Broadcasting 2002Accra Declaration on Public Service Broadcasting in West Africa 2002Declaration of Principle on Freedom of Expression in Africa 2006African Film Summit 2009FEPACI Master Report: Selections 2010 Queer African Manifesto/Declaration 2010Manifesto: Conference of African Women Filmmakers 2010Sollywood: A Movement 2010Communique from the "Sustaining the New Wave of Pan-Africanism" Workshop 2011The WEMF V Accra Declaration 2013 African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedom 2013 Declaration at the Second African Women in Film Forum 2016The African Editors Forum (TAEF): Declaration on World Media Freedom Day 2016 African Media Initiative 2016Sisters Working in Film and Television (SWIFT) 2017Manifesto of Ouagadougou, FESPACO 25th Edition 2017The Surreal16 Collective Manifesto White Paper 2018African Cinema Day: One Africa, One Cinema Project 2003 & 2019 The African Audiovisual and Cinema Commission (AACC): Decision on the Establishment of an AACC (2003), Draft Statute of the AACC (2019) Part II: Black Diaspora 1920 Declaration of the Rights of Negro Peoples of the World 1945Selections from the Declarations and Resolutions of the Fifth Pan-African Congress 1956First Congress of Negro Writers and Artists 1958 Appeal: The Unity and Responsibilities of African Negro Culture 1959Second Congress of Negro Writers and Artists 1965An Esthetic of Hunger 1969Black Manifesto 1970Towards a Third Cinema 1972 Manifesto of the Palestinian Cinema Group 1973Resolutions of the Third World Filmmakers Meeting 1974The Resolution on Culture, Sixth Pan-African Congress 1974 Final Resolutions: International Conference for a New Cinema 1983Black Independent Filmmaking: A Statement by the Black Audio Film Collective 1983Symposium Declaration: Third Eye - Struggle for Black & Third World Cinema 1983NAMEDIA Declaration 1986 Inauguration of the San Antonio de Los Banos International School of Cinema and Television 1990FeCAVIP Manifesto 1990Audiovisual Market Caught Between the Chances in the North and South-South Cooperation 1991Special Broadcasting Service Charter 1992Caribbean Film and Video Federation: A Report 1993Working Group: Women in Cinema, Television, and Video Workshop 1994Resolution of the Seventh Pan-African Congress 1995Pan-African Union of Women of the Moving Image (UPAFI) 1999 Dogma Feijoada 1999Tunis Declaration for the Defense of National Cinemas 2003Dakar Declaration on the Promotion of ACP Cultures and Cultural Industries 2003National Cultural Policy of Jamaica: Towards Jamaica the Cultural Superstate 2003Towards a Protocol for Filmmakers Working with Indigenous Content and Indigenous Communities 2004 Poor Cinema Manifesto 2005Principles of Kaupapa Maori 2006Santo Domingo Resolution From the 2nd Meeting of the ACP Ministers of Culture 2008Jollywood Manifesto 2009 Brussels Declaration by Artists and Cultural Professionals and EntrepreneursAnnex to the Brussels Declaration: The Cinema and Audiovisual Sector as a Factor of Development (2009) 2009Afrosurreal Manifesto: Black is the New black-A 21st-Century Manifesto 2011-14 ABCD CINEMA: Filmmakers of Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean, and their Diasporas : Final Declaration of the First Meeting of ABCD CINEMA (2011) : Final Declaration of the Second Meeting of ABCD CINEMA (2012) : Final Declaration of the Third Meeting of ABCD CINEMA (2013 : Cameras of Diversity (2012-2014) 2012The Association for the Advancement of Cinematic Creative Maladjustment: A Manifesto 2012Forty Years of Cinema by Women of Africa 2013Tela Preta Manifesto 2013 Trinidad and Tobago Declaration on Developing the Caribbean Film Industry 2013The New Negress Film Society 2015Resolutions of the Eighth Pan-African Congress 2016"Black Is" and That's the Beauty of It: Ten Propositions Concerning the Visible and the Visual, in Consideration of Black Cinema and Black Visual Culture 2016Report on the Launch of the African Women Filmmakers Hub 2016Cinema Pasifika: Developing the narrative film and television sector in the Pacific Island region 2017Pan-African Alliance of Screenwriters and Filmmakers (APASER) 2018More Shamans, less intolerance! An Indigenous Manifesto at Berlin Film Festival 2018Kia Manawanui: Kaupapa Maori Film Theoretical Framework 2019Reclaiming Black Film and Media Studies 2021The New Normal: A Manifesto to Create a Safe Space, Free of Racism, for the Black Artist
"African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization combines theory and praxis as a means to explore the social, cultural, political, economic and gendered dynamics of African cinemas within a global context, all of which are determining factors in how African filmmaking practitioners and stakeholders negotiate their place as directors, producers, organizers, activists, scholars, distributors, cultural readers. The collection is an important addition to African Cinema Studies in particular, and the library of Film Studies in general."-Beti Ellerson, Founder and Director, Centre for the Study and Research of African Women in Cinema "Setting out, African Cinema positioned itself at the intersection of a theory and practice of cultural self-apprehension, with all the contradictions that come with that position. In this three-volume compendium, Martin, Kabore and their various collaborators have provided a comprehensive, almost exhaustive, account eventuating in a third, element-history. A more comprehensive account will be hard to find anywhere else."-Akin Adesokan, Indiana University "This is a long-awaited volume of detailed, and analytical information and commentary that maps the development of the cinema of a large continent and the background ideas that have influenced its formation."-June Givanni, Director of the June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive (JGPACA)
