Lani Akande

Assistant Professor, African Cinema, #UNCW

[Lani Akande @LaniAkande]

@KamRafiei @AlexHendri67988 @TTrevethan @BernieSanders Precisely what they haven’t thought about. Optimized AI means jobs go away; so earnings go away. So, taxation goes away. Govt coffers will dry out; UBI will not exist. Profit no longer exists.

[[email protected] @CageyRant]

My very good friend James S. Williams’s new book for the @BFI Film Classics series — on Senegalese auteur Ousmane Sembene’s XALA — is published today. It’s a beautifully written and must-read tome! I am very grateful to him for sending me a copy.
https://t.co/vUXyDDTwSK

[Film Africa @FilmAfrica]

Submit your film:
https://t.co/SW6NatZqi8

Film Africa, London’s celebration of African and African diaspora cinema is coming back on 25th October - 3rd November.

Submissions will close on 30 June 2024, with the selected films notified by 30 July 2024

[June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive @JG_PACA]

We are extremely proud to announce that June Givanni (founder and director of the June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive) will be presented with the BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award at this year’s ceremony.

[JACS_Africa @AfricaJacs]

We are putting the final finishing touches to the next issue of @AfricaJacs, the long awaited #NigerianCampusForms issue which has been a collaboration with the @LagosStudies. Watch this space.

[Lani Akande @LaniAkande]

@irokocritic …but I want to be cautious not to make this a negative critique, because to do so is to prioritize Hollywood’s style of introducing major characters early.

[Lani Akande @LaniAkande]

@irokocritic One observation, not necessarily a plus or minus, is that the film continues to introduce new characters way into the plot, much after the narrative was set in place. Not sure how that worked…

[Lani Akande @LaniAkande]

#Film #Studies instructors: For an Intro to Film Studies course, what non-Western films might you select for teaching any of film aesthetics, editing, color, style, mise-en-scene, sound/audio, performance?

[JACS_Africa @AfricaJacs]

Exciting! We are building the next cohort.

[Lani Akande @LaniAkande]

@DetroittoAccra @VT_History Congratulations to you and @VT_History

[Lagos Studies Association @LagosStudies]

LSA President Wins the Largest History Prize in the World!

Congratulations to LSA President Saheed Aderinto on winning the $300,000 Dan David Prize. He is one of the nine exceptional scholars chosen.

Read more…

https://t.co/54YjDc8JGC

[Innis College Library @InnisCollegeLib]

Happening online on Feb 7, 1-3 PM EST! https://t.co/14W1eWecOh

[JACS_Africa @AfricaJacs]

Congratulations to Sakiru Adebayo, on this great win. See below for a link to his article This Uprising Will Bring Out the Beast in Us: The Cultural (After)Life of ‘Beasts of No Nations’, published in @africajacs and a voucher to access it.

[Lani Akande @LaniAkande]

@irokocritic Just curious: would we consider these short films horror films? If yes, why? If not, why not? Thanks.

[Lani Akande @LaniAkande]

@imeanswhatisays That’s a class I’d sign up for!

[Lani Akande @LaniAkande]

Film Studies Professor position/job @UNCW. We’d like to hear from you!https://t.co/n7e40n9BmC #phdlife #PhD

[Lagos Studies Association @LagosStudies]

Good News!

LSA members Carli Coetzee (Journal of African Cultural Studies) and Louisa Egbunike (Durham University) have just been elected President and Vice President, respectively, of the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom.
Read more…
https://t.co/iARpC7CkSS

[Tambay Obenson @TambayObenson]

For Nigerian cinephiles, what Nollywood films (classic and contemporary) do you think belong in the Criterion Collection? Serious question. The original LIVING IN BONDAGE (1993), if only because of its place in Nollywood history?

[Lani Akande @LaniAkande]

@TambayObenson ‘Perspective’ can further complicate these concepts sometimes. Example: what would the Nigerian filmmaker, whose practice is restricted to Nigeria, think of a Nollywood definition that de-centres geography and place?

[Rakesh Sengupta @Rakesh_Sengupta]

Conferences never fail to remind me how much rich and relevant scholarship on/from the Global South gets structurally ignored to facilitate 'theoretical' readings of film and media.

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