Contemporary African Screen Worlds addresses an Africa full of new kinds and uses of screen media, encompassing interfaces among film platforms, filmmakers, performers, and audiences. Different kinds of work are required to get at these relationships, but the central project is watching African people watch screens, and its key heuristic and symbolic practice is the conversation, an egalitarian mode of discovering the unforeseen. The book blasts open old divisions that have balkanized the study of various kinds of media, so we can see more. There is no longer one world of African cinema, only a kaleidoscopic collection of many scenes and practices (which sometimes intercommunicate rhizomatically), rendered vividly by a team of researchers with intimate local knowledge. The book does not offer a totalizing theory of how power works through media, but it comes with an ethics, and its perspective and practice are radically democratic and democratizing.