Monangambee

Monangambee Monangambee is an irregular microcinema in Lagos, primarily taking place at the Jazzhole & hfactor, but rooted in a spirit of itinerant screening locations.

We also organize virtual screenings. Monangambee (formerly Is That Jazz) is a nomadic panafrican microcinema in Lagos, primarily based at the Jazzhole bookstore in Ikoyi, but also screening in a variety of other locations. Our screenings engage Black continental and diasporic filmmakers, as well as Third Cinema, and cinematic movements stemming from the Global South in general. We try as much as p

ossible to have the filmmakers present, in person or virtually, as the screenings are followed by discussions. Our name was decided as an homage to late Sarah Maldoror’s debut film, Monangambee (1969), in conversation with her daughter, Annouchka de Andrade. Set in Angola but shot in Algeria, Monangambee speaks to the fundamental misrecognition(s) between colonized and colonizers in a Fanonian vein, while also centering the possibilities of revolutionary care work. Quite fittingly, the name of the film is taken from a war cry colonized Angolans employed to warn of the approach of Portuguese slave traders.

For Black Camera’s close up on Sarah Maldoror’s Sambizanga, we offer a few reflections on CARCERAL FRAMES, FUGITIVE DREA...
08/02/2026

For Black Camera’s close up on Sarah Maldoror’s Sambizanga, we offer a few reflections on CARCERAL FRAMES, FUGITIVE DREAMS, a screening program we organized in 2021 at .co to commemorate/mourn the one year anniversary of the protests against police brutality in Nigeria and the brutal state-sanctioned massacre that ensued at Lekki tollgate. The program included the works of three militant filmmakers — Sarah Maldoror, Ousmane Sembene, Gadalla Gubara — to reflect on the ongoing carcerality of Black African life in colonial and “postcolonial” times, as well as histories of rebellion and protest.

Program:
MONANGAMBEE, Sarah Maldoror, Angola, 1968
SAMBIZANGA, Sarah Maldoror, Angola, 1972
TAUW, Ousmane Sembene, Senegal, 1970
LES MISERABLES, Gadalla Gubara, Sudan, 2007

It was only the second screening on the continent of the recently restored version of anticolonial landmark, Sambizanga, by Sarah Maldoror, after FESPACO, which speaks to the vexed circulations of many such works to the audiences they were meant for.

Find on this post our favorite moments/quotes from that discussion. Link in bio to read our full conversation!

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