Kumbuka is a multi-dimensional film that confronts the history and legacy of colonial views of Africa. It tells the story of two emerging African filmmakers as they struggle to re-edit an acclaimed yet controversial Dutch film about them. As the primary subjects of that film, they had publicly criticized it for its Eurocentric perspective, which they felt distorted their story. Having been offered the original footage for use by the film’s production company, they are at the same time presented with a chance to launch their nascent filmmaking careers as well as with the constraints that underscore persistent questions of power in cinematic representations of Africa. Interspersed with their re-editing efforts are two contradictory collections of archival footage, which provide a meta-critique both of the colonial project and of the Africanfuturistic movement that is growing in Congo in the wake of Petna Katondolo’s ongoing project of Recoding Aesthetics.