Reflections on Sarah Maldoror's Sambizanga : An Interview with Annouchka de Andrade

Abstract: This interview with Annouchka de Andrade, daughter of the director Sarah Maldoror, was conducted via e-mail between October 2024 and January 2025 (with edits made by both in June 2025). The interviewer, Gust Burns, attempts to gain historical insights into the background, production, and recent restoration of Maldoror's film Sambizanga , as well as inviting de Andrade to provide her own opinions and perspectives on the film and its fifty-years-and-running life. The interview may serve as a starting place for critical-historical research and analyses of both the reediting of the film by Maldoror herself and its restoration by de Andrade and her team.