Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike (1950–2018) was a scholar of African cinema and film history, and a member of faculty at Tulane University.
Life
editBorn in 1950, Udadike gained a BA from Croydon College and a master's in film and telecommunications from the University of Oregon. At New York University he gained a master's in cinema studies in 1986 and a PhD in 1989. He joined the faculty of the University of Michigan before moving to Tulane University in 1998.[1]
Ukadike died on August 4, 2018, in Agbor, Nigeria, while researching and visiting family.[2]
Works
edit- African Black Cinema, 1994
- (ed.) New discourses of African Cinema, 1995
- Questioning African Cinema: Conversations with African Filmmakers, 2002
- (ed.) African Cinema: Narratives, Perspectives and Poetics, 2014
- Critical Approaches to African Cinema Discourse, 2014
References
edit- ^ In Memoriam: N. Frank Ukadike, Tulane School of Liberal Arts, September 13, 2018.
- ^ "SPLA | N. Frank Ukadike". spla.pro. Retrieved 2018-11-01.
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