Durable Dreams: Dissent, Critique, and Creativity in Faat Kiné and Moolaadé

jude g. akudinobi teaches cinema in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His essays on African cinema have appeared in Iris; The Black Scholar; Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art; Social Identities; Third Text; and Research in African Literatures, among other publications and anthologies. The founding film editor of the internationally refereed scholarly journal African Identities, Dr. Akudinobi has also served as the guest editor of a special issue entitled “African Cinema for Social Identities.” He is currently at work on two anthologies and a short documentary, Retracing Historical Signatures, which, through the works of the Zimbabwean artist Obed Muringani, challenges pervasive definitions of African cultural production.