Decolonising Film
and Screen Studies
‘African Screen Worlds: Decolonising Film and Screen Studies’ was a European Research Council-funded research project led by Professor Lindiwe Dovey and hosted at SOAS University of London (from June 2019 to March 2025). Through producing films, edited books, articles, and toolkits, and through curating workshops, conversations, film screenings and panel discussions, the project explored in particular Africans’ contributions to the diverse, complex screen worlds that make up audiovisual cultures in our contemporary moment. It was also interested in putting African cinemas into conversation with other regional cinemas to theorise global screen worlds in more inclusive, nuanced ways.
TESTIMONIAL
Core team
Partners
Advisory board
Moradewun Adejunmobi
Shelley Barry
Chris Berry
Joanna Callaghan
Jorge Cohen
Rajinder Dudrah
Muyiwa Falaiye
June Givanni
Catherine Grant
Zebunnisa Hamid
Kenneth W. Harrow
Jonathan Haynes
Katarina Hedrén
Alessandro Jedlowski
Ananya Jahanara Kabir
Griseldis Kirsch
Song Hwee LIM
Ramon Lobato
Xiaoning Lu
Caspar Melville
Litheko Modisane
Nashen Moodley
Laura Mulvey
Lúcia Nagib
Jacqueline Nsiah
Elias Ribeiro
Meera Sabaratnam
Masha Salazkina
Estrella Sendra
Weerada Sucharitkul
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Louisa Wei
Zhang Yong
Contact
SOAS
University of London
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
United Kingdom
Lindiwe Dovey
Principal investigator
ld18@soas.ac.uk
