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“The film offers parallel commentary tracks between Senegal's first
president Léopold Sédar Senghor, who is seen in newsreel interviews from
the 1950s through the 1970s, and a contemporary interview with the Nigerian
Nobel Literature Prize winner Wole Soyinka. The time gap creates a
startling balance between Senghor offering confident and, perhaps,
too-serious exultations over the Pan-African focus of the literary movement
Negritude--a black intellectual philosophy founded in France in the
1930s--and Soyinka providing a wry dissection of the movement's triumphs
and failings via 20/20 hindsight. Highly recommended.”

—P. Hall, Video Librarian Magazine


Negritude: A Dialogue Between Wole Soyinka and Senghor
<http://twn.org/catalog/pages/cpage.aspx?rec=1481&card=price>

Manthia Diawara, 2015, 59 min., Color, USA/France/Germany/Portugal

This imagined dialogue between Léopold Sédar Senghor, one of the founding
fathers of Negritude, and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka was reconstructed
almost entirely from archival materials. It probes the relevance of the
concept of Negritude 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 immigration
policies in the West.

Higher Education Institutions DVD: $300

K-12, public libraries & special groups DVD: $80

Screenings

New York African Film Festival, Film Society of Lincoln Center

Lumiar Cité Exhibition, Lisbon, Portugal

ASALH Conference Film Festival, 2017

Association for the Study of African American Life and History, 2017

The Film Work of Manthia Diawara

A native of Mali, Manthia Diawara collaborated with Ngugi wa Thiong'o in
making their first documentary Sembene Ousmane: The Making of the African
Cinema in 1994. Since then, he has directed more than ten documentaries
about the African Diaspora, most recently An Opera of the World,
Negritude, Edouard
Glissant: One World in Relation, and Who’s Afraid of Ngugi? Director of
NYU’s Institute of Afro-American Affairs and Director of the Africana
Studies Program, he is the author of We Won't Budge: An African Exile in
the World (2003), Black-American Cinema: Aesthetics and Spectatorship
(1993), African Cinema: Politics and Culture (1992), and In Search of Africa
(1998). He has published widely on the topic of film and literature of the
Black Diaspora.

Negritude: A Dialogue Between Wole Soyinka and Senghor
<http://twn.org/catalog/pages/cpage.aspx?rec=1481&card=price>

Manthia Diawara

2015, 59 min., Color, USA/France/Germany/Portugal

This imagined dialogue between Léopold Sédar Senghor, one of the founding
fathers of Negritude, and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka was reconstructed
almost entirely from archival materials. It probes the...

Bamako Sigi-kan
<http://twn.org/catalog/pages/cpage.aspx?rec=1068&card=price>

Manthia Diawara

2002, 76 min., Color, US

This original documentary shot by Arthur Jafa brings a new look to the
modern African city and enables a better understanding from the inside of
how democracy takes root in Mali. Discover how politics...

Conakry Kas <http://twn.org/catalog/pages/cpage.aspx?rec=1115&card=price>

Manthia Diawara

2003, 82 min., Color, US

In January 2003, Director Manthia Diawara visited Guinea-Conakry to see
what was left of the artists (Ballets Africains, Bembeya Jazz National) and
intellectuals (D.T. Niane, Telivel Diallo) of the Gu...

Diaspora Conversations: from Goree to Dogon
<http://twn.org/catalog/pages/cpage.aspx?rec=1059&card=price>

Manthia Diawara

2000, 47 min., Color, US

Actor Danny Glover and director Manthia Diawara travel through West Africa
from Goree to Dogon, creating conversations that link different sides and
accounts of the African diaspora. "Diaspora Convers...

Edouard Glissant: One World in Relation
<http://twn.org/catalog/pages/cpage.aspx?rec=1299&card=price>

Manthia Diawara

2010, 50 min., Color, US

In 2009, Manthia Diawara, with his camera, followed Edouard Glissant on the
Queen Mary II in a cross-Atlantic journey from South Hampton (UK) to
Brooklyn (New York). This poetic meditation continued i...

In Search of Africa
<http://twn.org/catalog/pages/cpage.aspx?rec=1028&card=price>

Manthia Diawara

1997, 26 min., Color, US

In 1996, the filmmaker and writer Manthia Diawara, now living in New York,
returns to Guinea, thirty-two years after he and his family were expelled
from the newly liberated country. Despite the years...

Maison Tropicale
<http://twn.org/catalog/pages/cpage.aspx?rec=1298&card=price>

Manthia Diawara

2008, 58 min., Color, Republic of Congo/France

Designed by famous French architect and designer Jean Prouvé and built by
the colonial French government in 1951, the Maison Tropicales were
prototype houses intended to address the shortage of housin...

Rouch in Reverse
<http://twn.org/catalog/pages/cpage.aspx?rec=1201&card=price>

Manthia Diawara

1995, 52 min., US/UK

Malian filmmaker and scholar Manthia Diawara critiques visual anthropology
through the work of Jean Rouch....

Sembene: the Making of African Cinema
<http://twn.org/catalog/pages/cpage.aspx?rec=1165&card=price>

Manthia Diawara & Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

1994, 60 min., Color, UK

This rich documentary follows the legendary Senagalese filmmaker Sembene
Ousmane from the Pan African Film Festival in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
back to the streets of Dakar and his Galle Ceddo home a...

Who's Afraid of Ngugi?
<http://twn.org/catalog/pages/cpage.aspx?rec=1191&card=price>

Manthia Diawara

2006, 83 min., Color, US/Kenya

Novelist, essayist, playwright, journalist, editor, academic and social
activist Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born in Kenya, in 1938 into a large peasant
family. In 1977 his novel Petals of Blood was publish...


Sincerely,
Roselly
Third World Newsreel
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