 He in turn also questions whether European feminism would be at odds with African feminist filmmakers and see them as "inadvertently sustaining a partriarchal order and thus subverting their own goals".In the 1960s, African feminism came out of the Third Cinema movement, which regarded film as a medium of social and political activism.Films by Sembene, Safi Faye, Sarah Maldoror and others used linear narratives in order to clearly convey the systematic exploitation of certain groups of women.