Associate Professor of Film in the Department of Communication and the Program in African and African Diaspora Studies at Tulane University and an authority on African Cinema with several publications on the subject under his name) will host a one day seminar titled African Cinema: From the earliest beginnings to Nollywood. In this seminar he will address the history, theory, practices and criticism of African Cinema and expand upon African/Third World Perspectives in relation to the dominant practices and media.