ABSTRACT

This chapter describes the contemporary, post-colonial condition, highlighting the contextual similarities and differences between space, place, identity and culture within African and other Diasporic cultures. Film has a hybrid relationship with space and place. Academics, and those in the cultural arena with African links, have had minimal engagement with the recording and analysis of new, fluid art and cultural movements that are undergoing rapid change. This is presumably because the traditional cultural movements are much safer to report on than this emerging, relatively unknown arena. Post-colony in Asia however does have its differences, it also benefits from having had a rigorous analysis undertaken by a number of academics, including the subaltern school of India. This cosmological difference thus separates Asia's experience of imperialism and post-colony from any of the other continental relationships.