Screening and Conversation with Manthia Diawara
When
April 26th, 2018
Where
TBA
Description
Based on archive material, Manthia Diawara organizes an imagined dialogue between Léopold
Senghor, one of the founders of the concept of Negritude, and Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian writer
awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. According to Diawara, “the film probes the current
relevance of the concept of Négritude, against the views of its many critics, not only to the
decolonization and independence movements of the 1950s and 1960s, but also to an
understanding of the contemporary artistic and political scenes of nationalism, religious
intolerance, multiculturalism, the exodus of Africans and other populations from the South, and
xenophobic migration policies in the West.”
Co-Sponsors
Department of Fine Arts