... was violent. As the corpses' skin which Malam engages to create his pieces—in par• began to fall away in the fetid water, a crowd gath• ticular his larger, full-body casts—take place out• ered, demanding that the bodies be removed. The side and tend to call attention to themselves...

... contamination and social space that have undergirded African cinema its accompanying ills. For example, one of the inter- from its earliest inception. viewees speaks of his brother, Malam Sani, who had been a driller at the mine. Exposed to radiation, he died in the company hospital in Arlit. The inter...