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August 17, 2025International Journal of Innovative Research in Multidisciplinary Education

Silent Africa: Narrative, Power, and Invisibility in French Colonial Cinema

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NPN'DOHI Yoman Ange Patrick

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Qualitative analysis reveals how French colonial cinema constructs a distorted portrayal of Africa, highlighting racial dynamics.

Key Points

  • French colonial cinema perpetuates a distorted image of Africa, reducing it to a mere backdrop and Africans to silent figures.
  • The thematic content analysis examined films from the 1920s to 1960s, revealing three main logics around otherness and hierarchy.
  • Documentary content analysis involved semi-structured interviews with sixteen art doctoral students to understand their perspectives.
  • This work aims to foster a critical racialized awareness towards the manipulative representations in visual works.

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N'DOHI Yoman Ange Patrick (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68a36f8a0a429f79733324dahttps://doi.org/10.58806/ijirme.2025.v4i8n02
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