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I was trying to trace footsteps, memories of a time that lay somewhere between myth and someone else’s life. Hours had now passed, walking, in a slight daze, crisscrossing Murtala Muhammed Way and the gridded streets of the southern area of Yaba that formed the historical Ebutte Metta, a Yoruba settlement of the Egba people from the Abeokuta kingdom. I was now on Borno Street.

I had come from my home, in Gbagada. If you tried to trace back my footsteps you would go north along Ikorodu Road, beyond Jibowu, Palm Groove, Somolou and Obanikoro, past the looming structure of the Shepherdhill Baptist church.

On my run, earlier that morning, hands on my knees, catching my breath, bent over, having lost my rhythm, I suddenly stopped at the church. My eyes and head wondered, as though scanning an artifact. It felt open and permeable, always calling out. The words “Shepherd Hill” were written boldly in while paint on the UFO-shaped brown, metal, tent-like roof, which appears suspended, hovering just above ground, ready to take to the heavens at any moment.

It would have made sense to just call my brother and ask for the street name. But something about not remembering the exact address where I lived until I was six, and w

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Dictionary of African Filmmakers (Roy Armes, 2008)

Africa
Film & Media Armes
Roy Armes is Professor Emeritus of “An invaluable project.”

Dictionary of African Filmmakers

Film at Middlesex University in the U.K. —Kevin Dwyer,
He has published many works on film American University in Cairo
including (with Lizbeth Malkmus) Arab

of African
and African Film Making; Dictionary of “[A book] of tremendous importance
North African Film Makers; Postcolonial and utility to scholars, researchers, stu-
Images (Indiana University Press, 2005);
and African Filmmaking (Indiana
A landmark dents, and the public at large.”
—Michael Martin,
University Press, 2006). Black Film Center/Archives,
reference tool Indiana University

Filmmakers
Compiled by eminent Africanist film
for African film scholar Roy Armes, Dictionary of African
Filmmakers is an inclusive, comprehen-
sive treatment of films and filmmaking
on the African continent. The diction-
ary covers African feature film–making
from the first locally produced films to
today’s thriving film industry, listing
over 5,400 films made by more than
1,250 filmmakers in 37 countries. Part 1
includes information on filmmakers and
provides date and place of birth, training
or film experience, other creative activi-
ties

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