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Manthia Diawara
Bamako, Mali
Manthia Diawara is a Malian writer, filmmaker, cultural theorist, scholar, and art historian. His essays on art, cinema, and politics have appeared in The New Times Magazine, LA T…
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Manthia Diawara is a Malian writer, filmmaker, cultural theorist, scholar, and art historian. His essays on art, cinema, and politics have appeared in The New Times Magazine, LA Times, Libération, Mediapart, and Artforum. He is the author of two acclaimed memoirs: In Search of Africa (Harvard University Press, 2000) and We Won’t Budge: An African in the World (Basic Books, 2008). He has published several books on African and African American cinema. Diawara’s notable films include An Opera of the World (2017), Negritude: A Dialogue between Soyinka and Senghor (2016), Édouard Glissant: One World in Relation (2010), Maison Tropicale (2008), Rouch In Reverse (1995), AI: African Intelligence (2023), and Angela Davis: A World of Wider Freedom (2024).
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2023
AI: African Intelligence
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2023
Angela Davis: A World of Greater Freedom
Movie Director
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2022
A Letter from Yene
Movie Self
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2021
Praise Song
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2017
An Opera of the World
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2017
Manthia Diawara on 'Black Girl'
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2017
Manthia Diawara on 'Borom Sarret'
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2009
Édouard Glissant: One World in Relation
Movie Director
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2008
Maison Tropicale
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2004
Conakry Kas
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2002
Bamako Sigi-Kan
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2000
Diaspora Conversations: from Goree to Dogon
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1995
Rouch in Reverse
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1994
Sembène: The Making of African Cinema
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Yari Yari: Black Women Writers and the Future
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