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- Title
Part II–(Re)imagining Cinematic Histories of Africa: African Women, Cinema, and the Tale of Kadidia Pâté<sup> 1 </sup>.
- Authors
Ellerson, Beti
- Abstract
"Le dit du cinéma africain" (The Tale of African Cinema), by the inimitable griot-historian Amadou Hampâté Bâ, is an extraordinary tale of Mali's early encounter with cinema, revealing an equally fascinating story of an early instance of an African woman and cinematic spectatorship. In his tale, he recounts in her own words, his mother Kadidia Pâté's first experience with cinema. This enchanting and edifying rendezvous with the moving image provides us not only with a unique introduction to the histories of African women's encounter with cinema but also to the transglobal nature of these cinematic experiences. As Toni Cade Bambara reminds us, as early as 1897, "operators for Lumière, Meliès, and Edison were presenting, in various countries, programs of flickers shot from all over the world." And in the case of Mali in this tale, movies imposed on the inhabitants who refused to look. This section relates her extraordinary story.
- Subjects
MALI; AFRICAN history; EDISON, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931; AFRICANS; WOMEN in motion pictures; WOMEN'S history
- Publication
Black Camera: The New Series, 2024, Vol 15, Issue 2, p189
- ISSN
1536-3155
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/blc.00015