Responding to the chapters included in Contemporary African Screen Worlds, this afterword formulates a few reflections aimed at pointing out further directions for future research in the field of African screen media. It points in particular at the need to further investigate the political dimensions of technological innovation and the ambiguous role played by African states in relation to the transformations that such innovation provoked. It also highlights the conceptual fertility of the notion of “screen media worlds” adopted in this collection, and its potential for inspiring future research on southern screen cultures, beyond the narrow (and at times misleading) boundaries of world cinema and African cinema studies.