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, Ukadike 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.

Ukadike died on August 4, 2018, in Agbor, Nigeria, while researching and visiting family.

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