Preservation policies for moving images made in Africa by Africans was, for a long time, not an issue for most librarians and archivists in Europe with an interest in Africa. They thought of ‘African moving images’ as moving images made on that continent (mostly by non Africans). But in recent years they have become aware that there is a (huge) amount of audiovisual production by Africans, and that makes a difference. For studying and understanding Africa, these are important sources. But it is not easy to find them, or to get to them and to know where and how they are preserved. This issue is of course linked to the state of archives and libraries on the African continent. It has to be said that for most people the definition of an African film is a film made by an African.