Abstract
Nationalist African cinema significantly detached itself from the ideological underpinnings of reductive colonial images. It was, in the eyes of the members of the Fepaci (Federation panafricaine des cineastes), a matter of political and cultural survival. This article argues that the films of this and subsequent generations were able to do so only by fusing generic features of the documentary genre in the crafting of fictional narratives.
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