African Cinema’s Renaissance

Abstract

In African Cinema in a Global Age, Kenneth W. Harrow moves beyond traditional postcolonial and national frameworks to examine how African cinemas have been reshaped by transnational capital, festival circuits, streaming platforms, and Nollywood-style video economies. The book is a theoretically dense intervention that repositions African cinema as ‘worldmaking’ practices operating within uneven global temporalities. While theoretically ambitious, the work occasionally sacrifices empirical depth and gives limited attention to gender and South African perspectives.