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Accepted Paper
Towards an African epistemology in African Studies
Louise Muller
(Leiden University)
Paper short abstract
This article aims to introduce a new epistemology in African Cinema by its cross-fertilization with African Intercultural Philosophy.
Paper long abstract
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.
Decolonizing the knowledge linkages between Africa and the rest of the world [initiated by the University of Cape Town]
Session 1