The Genius of an African Storyteller: A Selectively Annotated Bibliography of Work on and by Haile Gerima

Abstract

This selectively annotated bibliography on Haile Gerima is designed for scholars and emerging researchers of his vast cinematic-intellectual corpus. The bibliography references primary sources by Gerima himself from films, book chapters, and essays, for example. It also references secondary sources that might otherwise be quite difficult to locate on the works of Haile Gerima, such as journal articles, monographs, newspaper features, theses, and film reviews. These resources exist in multiple languages, too, particularly French and Amharic as well as English. For some of the entries, a brief description is provided to preview the content of the work. It is hoped that this bibliography will serve intellectuals across different fields and offer a handy tool for the examination of Haile Gerima's forty-year career in African cinema.