This essay examines African cinema discourse as 2026 begins, identifying five persistent “habits” that continue to shape how African film is discussed, valued, and imagined. Continuing to move beyond the well-documented macro picture, keying in on less obvious relationships and extrapolations that describe more specific mechanics of African screen activity during the post-COVID years through the […]
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10 Conversations African Cinema Is Having With Itself: Year-end Analysis
Continuing Akoroko’s year-end 2025 African cinema analysis series, what follows is a report that Premium subscribers received a week ago. It draws from a comprehensive audit of over 4,000 Akoroko documents, capturing African screen activity from late 2022 through December 2025. Much global industry trade coverage has looked at African cinema via the lens of […]