Africa's lost classics: new histories of African cinema - 5

Until recently, the story of African film was marked by a series of truncated histories: many outstanding films from earlier decades were virtually inaccessible and thus often excluded from critical accounts.

However, various conservation projects since the turn of the century have now begun to make many of these films available to critics and audiences in a way that was unimaginable just a decade ago.

Lizelle Bisschoff and David Murphy draw together the best scholarship on the diverse and fragmented strands of African film history.