Negritude: A Dialogue Between Wole Soyinka and Senghor

Tuesday November 12. at 6pm Sisters in Cinema 2310 E 75th St

Reserve your free ticket here!

Negritude: A Dialogue Between Wole Soyinka and Senghor

Manthia Diawara 2015 59 minutes

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.

‍

With remarks by Roselyne Gerazime
Assistant Professor
Department of French and Francophone Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago

‍