Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike (1950–2018) was a scholar of African cinema and film history, and a member of faculty at

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Life

Born in 1950, Udadike gained a BA from

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and a master's in film and telecommunications from the

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. At

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he gained a master's in cinema studies in 1986 and a PhD in 1989. He joined the faculty of the

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before moving to

in 1998.In Memoriam: N. Frank Ukadike
Tulane School of Liberal Arts, September 13, 2018. Ukadike died on August 4, 2018, in

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, while researching and visiting family.

Works

* ''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

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