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Contemporary African Screen Worlds (2025)
Book
Dovey, L., Agina, A., & Thomas, M. (Eds.). (2025). Contemporary African Screen Worlds. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478060413

Contemporary African Screen Worlds brings together a new generation of African screen media scholars who explore and theorize the dynamic, interactive screen worlds that have arisen in contemporary Africa due to dramatic global changes in technology.... Read More about Contemporary African Screen Worlds.

The Asian-African Film Connection: Cross-Cultural Imaginaries, Shared Sources, Parallel Histories (2021)
Other
The Asian-African Film Connection: Cross-Cultural Imaginaries, Shared Sources, Parallel Histories. UK

The four, co-authored articles presented here emerged out of a one-day workshop held at SOAS in July 2018, called “The Asian-African Film Connection” – an event specifically designed to bring UK-based scholars of Asian and African film into conversat... Read More about The Asian-African Film Connection: Cross-Cultural Imaginaries, Shared Sources, Parallel Histories.

Toolkit 5: Senegal on the Screen (2020)
Book Chapter
Sendra Fernandez, E. (2020). Toolkit 5: Senegal on the Screen. In L. Dovey (Ed.), Screen Worlds Toolkits (1-10). Screen Worlds

ZiFM Stereo : Negotiating Identity on Private Radio in Zimbabwe (2019)
Thesis
Masina, N. L. ZiFM Stereo : Negotiating Identity on Private Radio in Zimbabwe. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Despite a sizable amount of research on Zimbabwean media, there is significantly little known about the internal production practices within radio stations in Zimbabwe. My original contribution to the analysis of Zimbabwean media is in moving away fr... Read More about ZiFM Stereo : Negotiating Identity on Private Radio in Zimbabwe.

Cinema in Ethiopia : Genre, Melodrama and the Commercial Amharic Film Industry (2019)
Thesis
Thomas, M. W. Cinema in Ethiopia : Genre, Melodrama and the Commercial Amharic Film Industry. (Thesis). SOAS, University of London

This thesis explores the emergence of the commercially viable Amharic film industry in Ethiopia, investigating its system of genres and the manifestation of an Ethiopian-style melodrama. Emerging in 2002 from an economic scenario devoid of government... Read More about Cinema in Ethiopia : Genre, Melodrama and the Commercial Amharic Film Industry.