African cinema’s independence era isn’t just history:
✦ Ola Balogun turned 80 this month — one of Nigeria’s first post-independence directors, still alive, still writing
✦ Haile Gerima (79), Flora Gomes (75), Sana Na N’Hada (75), Kwaw Ansah (84), and Jean-Pierre Dikongué-Pipa (85) are still with us, carrying decades of knowledge and experience
✦ Souleymane Cissé, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina both passed away this year. Safi Faye, Sarah Maldoror, and Med Hondo, all in recent years, leaving behind bodies of work that defined their time
Their lives and films shaped everything that followed.
A reflection on remembering those still with us, before the history disappears.
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