Early 20^th century movements for decolonization and political philosophies of anti-colonial nationalisms articulated important epistemes that spoke back as well as moderated colonial modernities in Africa. Their works and those of literary and other cultural practices were sites within which collective and individuated subjectivities where imagined and illustrated. Such works and their responses to colonial modernity map out what I call Africa’s  “inter-modernist landscapes.” 20^th century to contemporary history shows that the colonial modernity, which colonized most of Africa, has mutated to arrest old decolonizing energies as well as reframe the continent and peoples into new and different forms of colonial modernities. Contemporary neocolonial reality is however under theorized and philosophical as well as political movements articulating and resisting neocolonialism in Africa continue to be underdeveloped. I argue that neocolonial despair in contemporary Africa maps out what I call the continent’s “intra-modernist landscapes” and that it is such popular cultural practices as films in Nigeria and Ghana, that seem to be textualizing both despair and imaginaries for practicing new utopias at popular grassroots levels.  My paper gives an overview of some bold themes and search for film vocabularies and conventions by filmmakers, as well as presenting interpretive positions about their utility in imagining new utopias in Africa. On one hand I intend drawing attention to the disarticulations between anticolonial utopias of the past and neocolonial anomy of contemporary societies like Nigeria and Ghana, and on the other, theorize the emergence of new utopias in contexts of arrested decolonization in Africa. I have a 5 minutes video to accompany a 15-minute presentation.