Revised and reproduced from Cameroon Post # 0062, May 23, 1997
Each year, for the past several years, an Italian Catholic organization, the Centro Orientamento Educativo (COE), which has been active in various Catholic dioceses in Cameroon for nearly thirty years, organizes a festival in the northern Italian city of Milan dedicated to the African cinema. This festival provides an opportunity for African film-makers, film-critics and journalists to meet and exchange notes on the fate of the cinema, also known as the ‘7th art’, in Africa. At the March 1997 festival, I met and talked with Dr.Mbye Cham, a Gambian national, about the relevance of the cinema to literature in Africa. He lives and teaches literature and cinema as a discipline at Howard University in Washington D.C. Excerpts.
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