African women are sidelined from film making, the result of pervasive patriarchal biases that exist in both the film industry and African society. Whichever it is, the intersections of multiple exclusions are particularly toxic to African women filmmakers. In fact, African women, especially sub-Saharan African women, lag far behind other categories of women when it comes to representing themselves and their points of view in films. North African women filmmakers have higher chances of accessing the resources they need than do other African women. Excluding women, and particularly African women from the sector, is to exclude such women from increasingly significant economic activity.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 29, 2019 11:26 UTC