Editorial

This general issue of the Journal of African Cinemas brings together scholarship about cinemas covering Senegal, Tunisia and Nigeria. It features vibrant debates on how Africa’s cinemas engage with contemporary issues, including the precarity of transnational migration and the experiences of African migrants outside the continent. There are also conversations about how African cinemas narrate environmental issues, and mental health. The article on language politics in African cinema probes linguistic indigeneity in contemporary African filmmaking. Finally, there is an exciting critique of Sarah Maldoror’s cinema purview through the frames of politics and aesthetics. Some of the key entry points into the issue include the phenomenon of globalization and the attendant history of precariousness, insufficiency of postcolonialism in redressing the problems of modern Africa, and the aptness of Africa’s postcolonial cultural narratives, including cinema, in reflecting on injustices and global impulses.