CHAPTER 5
African Cinema Animation*
IF THE TOPIC IS “African cinema animation”, a question will most certainly be asked: What do we really know about it? Does anybody know anything about it? Amongst the forms of expression of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, cinema animation is unanimously considered to be the most underestimated, the least explored, and the most misunderstood of all. Within this dispiriting framework, African cinema animation suffers the worst-case scenario. Let us have a look at the written sources: apart from some monographs on the film and theatre director William Kentridge (Republic of South Africa), the precious but thin collection of works by the Swiss Bruno Edera,1 and the equally thin chapter on this topic ...
