Media effects are having a say in Africa as government censorship over works of arts becomes less sensitive. Gone are the days when a filmmaker, a singer or an author would be jailed for his or her ideas. Otherwise, Newton Aduaka, Joseph Muganga and Issa Serge Ceolo would have been of blessed memory now for betraying their states. Their films are more or less a whole revolutionary and denunciative discourse on war time and its blunders.

Télesphore Mba Bizo’s article deals with reviews and then overviews of the various environments of production of three selected films. The article ends up examining the function that cinema as a useful media and national policy watchdog has been fulfilling in advancing democracy in Africa. Here is a combined analysis of film texts, contexts and effects where fiction well matches reality.