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Accepted Paper: B08-8. To panel B08.

Title of paper:

Author:

Louise Muller (Leiden University).

Short abstract paper:
This article aims to introduce a new epistemology in African Cinema by its cross-fertilization with African Intercultural Philosophy.

Long abstract paper:
This article aims to introduce a new epistemology in African Cinema by its cross-fertilization with African Intercultural Philosophy. It will do so by concentrating on the global colonial and decolonized politics of space and time, by connecting so-called African Intercultural Philosophical Cinema to the wider history of African Cinema and by providing an example of a film analysis in this field. The focus will, thereby, be on the shortlisted documentary 'Common Threads' (2018). This Zanzibar festival's committee's nominee concentrates on the nineteenth-century and current Afro-Indian textile trade, the associated oral narratives and their visual impact on the so-called Kanga and Vitenge textiles.

Key words: African Cinema, African Philosophy, Intercultural Philosophy, Epistemology.

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