This book traces the developments in African films that were made from the 1990s to the present within the evolving frame of what came to be called 'World Cinema' and, eventually, 'Global Cinema.'

Introduction: African Cinema in a Global Age Part One: The Long 1990s 1. What the 1980s Brought 2. Kenneth Nnuebe, Living in Bondage (1992) and the Onset of Nollywood 3. Claire, Denis, Chocolat (1988), Auteurism and African Cinema Part Two: The Problematics of Modernity in African Cinema at the Millenium 4. Modernity in the Work of Tunde Kelani: Ti Oluwa Ni Ile (1993) and Thunderbolt: Magun (2001) 5. Modernity, Dominique Loreau, and Les Noms n'habitent nulle part (1994) 6. Two Films of Sotigui Kouyate, a Modern Griot: A. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Sotigui Kouyaté (1995); Rachid Bouchareb, Little Senegal (2000) 7. Framing Modernity, Abroad: Anyaene, Ije (2010) and Andrew Dosunmu, Mother of George, 2013 Part Three: African Cinema in an Age of Globalism Prologue: Time and the End: Cheah's Normativity and Teleological Time 8. Alain Gomis, Tey (2012): Being Toward Death 9. Two Films about Women Witches: Rugano Nyoni, I Am Not a Witch (2017); Maia Lekow, Christopher King, The Letter (2019) 10. The Resistance of the Old Woman: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection (2019) Conclusion: An Opera of This World (2017), Manthia Diawara: The Encounter with the Other Face-to-Face