History as cultural redemption in Gaston Kabore's precolonial-era films / Mahir Saul -- Beyond "history" : two films of the deep Mande past / Ralph A. Austen -- Tradition and resistance in Ousmane Sembene's films Emitai and Ceddo / Robert Baum -- The transatlantic slave trade in cinema / Robert Harms -- "What are we?" : Proteus and the problematising of history / Nigel Worden -- The public lives of historical films : the case of Zulu and Zulu dawn / Carolyn Hamilton and Litheko Modisane -- Breaker Morant : an African war through an Australian lens / Richard Mendelsohn -- From Khartoum to Kufrah : filmic narratives of conquest and resistance / Shamil Jeppie -- Cheap if not always cheerful : French West Africa in the world wars in Black and white in colour and Le camp de Thiaroye / Bill Nasson -- Whites in Africa : Kenya's colonists in the films Out of Africa, Nowhere in Africa and White mischief / Nigel Penn -- Beholding the colonial past in Claire Denis's Chocolat / Ruth Watson -- The battle of Algiers : between fiction, memory and history / Patrick Harries -- Raoul Peck's Lumumba : history or hagiography? / David Moore -- Flame and the historiography of armed struggle in Zimbabwe / Teresa Barnes -- Picturing apartheid : with a particular focus on "Hollywood" histories of the 1970s / Vivian Bickford-Smith -- Hotel Rwanda : too much heroism, too little history, or horror? / Mohamed Adhikari -- Looking the beast in the (fictional) eye : the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on film / David Philips.