Part III-Women's TransAfrican Cinematic Practice and Activism: Mapping the Trajectory of an African Women's Cinematic Consciousness: Joy Nwosu Lo-Bamijoko: Cinema e Africa Nera and a Seminal Moment of Africa/Diaspora Cinematic Discourse in Italy

Joy Nwosu Lo-Bamijoko, who journeyed to Italy in 1962, was among the first Nigerians to study there, receiving her diploma in music studies. She then began a three-year program in Mass Communications in 1965, specializing in cinematography. For her final project she wrote her thesis entitled Cinema e Africa Nera, on Africa and cinema, published as a book, in Italian, in 1968, as well as, the autobiographical novel, Io odio, tu odi. Joy Nwosu was born in Enugu, Anambra State of southeastern Nigeria, now retired. A musician trained in Santa Cecilia, Rome, she obtained her Ph.D. in Music Education from the University of Michigan, USA, and taught music for thirty-five years. She writes, performs, and records folk songs, and has written and published extensively in national and international scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers. Her short story "I I Come from Utopia" " was published in African Voices, , Spring/Summer, 2007. Her first English novel, Mirror of Our Lives: Voices of Four Igbo Women, , was published in 2011, and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Contest in 2012. Her most recent book, The Legend of the Walking Dead: Igbo Mythologies, is a journey into the mysteries of life and death of the Igbos of Nigeria. This section focuses on the important though little-known work produced during her time in Italy, as well as her student and lived experiences while there.