N. Frank Ukadike

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

Life

Born 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
  • 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
  1. In Memoriam: N. Frank Ukadike, Tulane School of Liberal Arts, September 13, 2018.
  2. "SPLA | N. Frank Ukadike". spla.pro. Retrieved 2018-11-01.


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