My recent travels across the continent—from Cape Town (South Africa) to Lagos (Nigeria), Kigali (Rwanda), and now Nairobi (Kenya) where I currently sit—have placed me in an endlessly contemplative state about the continent’s film ecosystems.
These journeys have inspired various conversations, thoughts, and ideas that I’ve been thinking through publicly via Akoroko Premium newsletters to subscribers.
Each is an open invitation into the unregulated, unfiltered expanse of my thoughts, where my current preoccupations roam free, as I’m confronted with questions about how film industries develop and what paths might make sense in African contexts.
Last week, subscribers received a newsletter titled “African Film Industries Need Time, Not Templates” that emphasized the importance of developing local industries in a manner that respects unique historical, cultural, and economic contexts, rather than merely copying established models from Western or other non-African industries.
It’s one of a few recent email dispatches you will receive if you subscribed to Akoroko Premium at the link: https://akoroko.com/subscribe/