“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 (212) 947-9277 ext. 10 ᐧ ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu