African cinemas and the global stage: A conversation between academics and practitioners

This is a short introduction to two short essays, the first one authored by an academic reproduced from The Conversation that discusses Netflix and cultural appropriation. The second essay was specifically commissioned from a practicing producer as response to the first essay. The objective is to generate a debate between scholars and practitioners on the issue of representation, how these are arrived at, and to assess assumptions about Africans as victims of big Western media firms. We invite further responses to this debate.