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