Most scholarship on African screen media acknowledges out- right that there have been, and continue to be, many trends and traditions in filmmaking across the continent and in the African diasporas, making it impossible to distinguish any particular coherence to the category of African filmmaking. Many scholars have advanced this argument through analysis of distinct production infrastructures, films, genres, nationally located cinemas, particular filmmakers, and critical concepts such as tra...
1.1 Background To The Study One of the crucial economic maladies that have confronted most developing countries since the early 1970's is the way capital flows from less developed nations to advanced nations of the world. This capital flow from less developed countries to the western world became noticeable from the early 1980's. Since then, these unusual flows have become a source of concern because of the macroeconomic challenges facing these countries and as a result of the paucity of much...