Global silences on African cinemas: Dialectic of omission in western canons.

This article examines the absence of African cinemas in three key fronts of western-led global film canons: cinema history, film criticism and the industry. It reflects on the mechanisms and processes that, invariably, have been creating and replicating in mass form the so-called global film culture that reveals itself in a more or less evident, hegemonic way. It also argues that as world cinemas advance on these three fronts, African cinemas have not made much headway to impact global directions in cinema canons significantly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]