This thesis seeks to write a comprehensive history of documentary film in Africa, from the beginning of the cinema until the eve of independence in the late 1950s. It looks at documentary practice and theory as deployed in and on the African continent ...

To hear the hard-charging manager of a Chinese-owned industrial park in Ethiopia tell it, it's a manufacturer's dream come true. (SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "MADE IN ETHIOPIA") MOTTO MA: This park is just like a small city. UNIDENTIFIED BUSINESSMAN: OK.