Cinema
In general, cinema in Africa is underdeveloped, with the exception of only film school in North Africa, where the 1920's filmed a lot of movies (cinemas Algeria and Egypt).
The so-called Black Africa for a long time, his movie did not have, and served as a backdrop for films made by Americans and Europeans. For example, in the French colonies, indigenous people were forbidden to make films, and in 1955 the Senegalese director Paulin Soumanou Vieira (en: Paulin Soumanou Vieyra) made the first French-language film L'Afrique sur Seine («Africa on the Seine), and then not at home and in Paris. Starred a number of films with anti-colonial mood, which were banned until decolonization. Only in recent years, after independence, began to develop national schools in these countries, above all it is South Africa, Burkina Faso and Nigeria (which has already formed a school of commercial cinema, dubbed "Nollivud"). The first film to receive international recognition, became the band director Ousmane Sembene of Senegal "Black Girl" of the complicated life of a maid-Negro in France.
1969 (enlisted the support of the state in 1972) in Burkina Faso conducted every two years on the continent's largest festival of African cinema FESPACO. North African alternative to this is the festival of the Tunisian "Carthage".
Much of the film, Removable African filmmakers, aimed at breaking stereotypes about Africa and its people. Many of the ethnographic films of the colonial period were the disapproval of the Africans as distorting African realities. The desire to adjust the global image of the Black African characteristic and literature.
Also, the notion of "African cinema" includes films produced diaspora outside the homeland.