The Poetics of Radical Hope: The Abderrhamane Sissako Experience communicates pieces of evidence that Sissako is the most talented and the most sophisticated filmmaker of his generation. This imaginative excellence emanates from new aspirations to fashion an original African cinematic aesthetic for a politic of radical hope and creative adaptation. Sissako's contribution extends to all aspects of the indigenous motion pictures industry to help rebuild the continent's cultural infrastructures and create intellectual and cultural spaces to mobilize narrative strategies to contribute in the...