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Diawara Manthia , director. Negritude: A Dialogue between Senghor and Soyinka. 2015. 52 minutes. USA. Third World Newsreel. English, French. No price reported.
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Manthia Diawara is one of the significant scholars of African cinema. As Kenneth Harrow notes about Diawara's book African Cinema: Politics and Culture (Indiana University Press, 1992), "his study of cinema production in various African countries . . . set the stage for many major critical approaches that would later inspire other scholars that emerged after him, in many ways. Among other contributions he promoted the use of archival research into the directions taken in Anglophone, Lusophone, and Francophone cinema" ("ARS Forum: What's New in African Cinema? Introduction," African Studies Review 58 [3], 2015).
It is not surprising that Diawara has also tried his hand at filmmaking itself--specifically documentaries in form of "cine-essays" in which the filmmaker, as Harrow...