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Who Gets to Tell Africa’s Wildlife Stories?
Kristina Obame’s first shoot in Gabon was a disaster. The generator exploded. The crew bus disappeared. For four days, the gorillas she was hoping to film failed to show up. When they finally appeared on the fifth day, Obame, a wildlife filmmaker from Gabon, captured footage that would become her debut film, Ndossi, blending folklore and conservation from a rarely seen perspective: an African woman’s. “Everything went wrong,” Obame recalled. “But it affirmed why I do this work.”