THE AFRICAN EXPERIENCE23. Hull, Modern Africa, p. 184.24. Donal B. Cruise O’Brien, Symbolic Confrontations: Muslims Imagining the State inAfrica (London: Hurst & Co., 2003), pp. 142–3.25. Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized (London: Souvenir Press, 1974),p. 106.26. Ibid., pp. 104–5.27. Ibid., p. 107.28. Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (London: Bogle-L’Ouverture,1972), p. 116.29. Junichiro Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows (London: Vintage, 2001), p. 16.30. Ibid., pp. 16–7.31. Denise Brahimi, Cinémas d’Afrique francophone et du Maghreb (Paris: Nathan,1997), p. 7.32. Jacqueline Kaye, Maghreb: New Writing from North Africa (York: Talus Editions,1992), p. 5.33. Ibid., p. 6.34. Cruise O’Brien, Symbolic Confrontations, p. 15.35. Mongo Beti, cited in Richard Bjornson, The African Quest for Freedom andIdentity: Cameroonian Writing and the National Experience (Bloomington:Indiana University Press, 1994), p. 329.36. Cf. Jacqueline Kaye and Abdelhamid Zoubir, The Ambiguous Compromise:Language, Literature and Identity in Algeria and Morocco (London and New York:Routledge, 1990).37. Oliver, The African Experience, p. 305.38. Jacques Maquet, Civilisations of Black Africa (New York: Oxford University Press,1972), p. 17.39. Ibid.40. David Robinson, Muslim Societies in African History (Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2004), p. 27.41. Ibid., p. 39.42. Ibid., p. 42.43. Ibid.44. Hull, Modern Africa, p. 233.45. Cruise O’Brien, Symbolic Confrontations, p. 178.46. Ibid.47. Nicholas Awde and Putros Samano, The Arabic Language (London: Saqi Books,1986), p. 14.48. Ibid.49. Viola Shafik, Arab Cinema (Cairo: The University of Cairo Press, 1998), p. 83.50. Kenneth W. Harrow (ed.), The Marabout and the Muse: New Approaches to Islamin African Fiction (Portsmouth, NH and London: Heinemann and James Curry,1996), p. xxiii.51. Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud, cited in Michel Amarger, M’Bissine Diop and CatherineRuelle, ‘Islam, croyances et négritude dans les cinémas d’Afrique’, Paris: Africultures47 (2002), p. 11.52. Maquet, Civilisations, p. 171.53. Oliver, The African Experience, p. 304.54. Ibid., p. 303.55. Jean François Troin, Maghreb Moyen-Orient: Mutations (Paris: Sedes, 1995),p. 217.56. Oliver, The African Experience, p. 283.57. Roland Pourtier, Villes Africaines (Paris: La Documentation Française, 1999), p. 1.17
AFRICAN FILMMAKING58. Troin, Maghreb-Moyen Orient, p. 218.59. Oliver, The African Experience, p. 304.60. Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, p. 30.61. Ibid.62. Oliver, The African Experience, p. 283.63. Ibid.64. Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger (eds), The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1983), p. 247.65. Ibid., p. 248.66. Achille Mbembe, cited in Richard Werbner and Terence Ranger (eds), PostcolonialIdentities in Africa (London: Zed Books, 1996), p. 1.67. Ibid.68. Ibid.69. Bernard Lewis, The Multiple Identities of the Middle East (London: Weidenfeld andNicolson, 1998), p. 4.70. Jolayemi Solanke, ‘Traditional Society and Political Institutions’, in RichardOlaniyan (ed.), African History and Culture (Lagos: Longman, 1982), p. 27.71. Ibid., p. 28.72. Fuad I. Khuri, Tents and Pyramids: Games and Ideology in Arab Culture fromBackgammon to Autocratic Rule (London: Saqi Books, 1990), p. 11.73. Ibid., p. 11.74. Ibid., p. 14.75. Ibid., p. 13.76. Ibid., p. 11.77. Tahar Cheriaa, ‘Le Groupe et le héros’, in CESCA, Camera nigra: Le Discours dufilm africain (Brussels: OCIC, 1984), p. 109.18
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