African Slavery in Documentary Films

Abstract

1 A large body of publications has emerged on slavery in the African continent, including among others: Martin A. Klein, “Studying the History of Those Who Would Rather Forget: Oral History and the Experience of Slavery,”History in Africa 16 (1989): 215; Edward A. Alpers, “Recollecting Africa: DiasporicMemory in the IndianOceanWorld,”African Studies Review 43 (1) (2000): 83–99; Rosalind Shaw,Memories of the Slave Trade: Ritual and the Historical Imagination in Sierra Leone (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002); Eric E. Hahonou and Baz Lecocq, “Introduction: Exploring Post-Slavery in Contemporary Africa,” International Journal of African Historical Studies 48, no. 2 (2015): 181–192; Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, Martin A. Klein, African Slaves, African Masters. Politics, Memories, Social Life (Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 2017); Alice Bellagamba. “Yesterday and today. Studying African slavery, the Slave Trade and their Legacies through Oral Sources,” in Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, Martin A. Klein, eds., African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade. Vol 2: Sources and Methods (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), 174–197; Alice Bellagamba. “Living in the shadows of slavery”, OPEN DEMOCRACY (2016) https://www.opendemocracy .net/beyondslavery/alice‐bellagamba/living‐in‐shadows‐of‐slavery, accessed on 10 November 2019; Marie Rodet, “Escaping Slavery and Building Diasporic Communities in French Soudan and Senegal, ca. 1880–1949,” The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 48, no. 2 (2015): 363–386; Marie Rodet, “Listening to the History of ThoseWho Don’t Forget,” History in Africa, 40, no. 1 (2013): 27–29; Francesca Declich. “ ‘A free Woman Could Marry a Slavebecause of Hunger’.Memories of Life in Slavery along theNorthernMozambiqueCoast,” in Bellagamba, Greene, and Klein, eds., African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade, 175– 200; Francesca Declich. “ ‘Gendered Narratives,’ History, and Identity: Two Centuries along the Juba River among the Zigula and Shanbara,”History in Africa 22 (1995): 93–122; Francesca Declich, “Shiftingmemories and forcedmigrations: the Somali Zigulamigration toTanzania,” Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute, 88, no. 3 (2018): 539–559; Nicholas