...Manthia Diawara In 2009, equipped with a camera, Manthia Diawara followed Édouard Glissant on the Queen Mary II in a transatlantic journey from South Hampton, United Kingdom, to Brooklyn, New York. This extraordinary voyage, six days and five nights, resulted in an intellectual biography in which...

... waves of conceptual art. Copyright © 2012 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2012 Melvin Edwards in Conversation with Manthia Diawara and Lydie Diakhaté Journal of Contemporary African Art • 30...

...Manthia Diawara Manthia Diawara became a close friend of Édouard Glissant in the early 1990s. In 2008, Glissant granted Diawara permission to make a film about his ideas. The author came with his camera to the 2008 Politics of the One-World conference in Paris to speak to Glissant about the film...

...Manthia Diawara; Terri Geis [email protected] [email protected] © 2022 co-published by Centro Botin and Mousse Publishing 2022 Ellen Gallagher and Edgar Cleijne ON THE ART OF BECOMING Manthia Diawara and Terri Geis We must everywhere create the concept of particular...

...Manthia Diawara Copyright © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 TROPIQUES and the Surrealist Movement in Martinique Manthia Diawara T ropiques (1941 45), a cultural journal edited by Suzanne Césaire, René Ménil, and Aimé Césaire, takes its place between Légitime Défense (1932) and Présence...

...Manthia Diawara Since 2015, Cheikh Ndiaye has been painting the most famous theaters between Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, and Dakar, Senegal, including their emblematic names: the Mansour, Liberté, VOG, Vox, ABC, Rio, the Medina, and Le Paris, et cetera. The artist’s obsessive paintings are without...

...Manthia Diawara Copyright © 2007 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2007 SELF REPRESENTATION...

...Manthia Diawara Copyright © 2008 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2008 ARCHITECTURE AS COLONIAL DISCOURSE ANGELA FERREIRA'S MAISONS TROPICALES Angela Ferreira, Maison Tropicale, 2007, installation view (detail), Portuguese...

...MANTHIA DIAWARA Copyright © 1995 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1995 ...

... to “African cinema” associates it with exoticism, making it into a genre easily recognized by Western audiences. It is this idea of a backward, monolithic Africa that the curators of African Screens, Manthia Diawara and Lydie Diakhaté, intended to challenge. The provocative gesture can be found in the choice...

..., cosmopolitanism, representing a wide range of disciplines. They and community in Africa and its diaspora. included Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Harvard University, Through a series of panels, films, and read- W. E. B. Du Bois Institute); Manthia Diawara, Lydie ings, Black Portraiture[s] included a wide range...

...• ars, including Okwui Enwezor, Melvin Edwards, Thelma Golden, Manthia Diawara, Stanley Whitney, Sally Berger, Sandra Jackson, Christine Kim and George Lewis, who were joined by Senegalese colleagues such as Viye Di'ba and Souleymane Keta to discuss the work of the participating artists and other...

...• as Okwui Enwezor, Manthia Diawara, of Malian portrait photography, see trait. The subjects, stoic for the first Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, Michael Amy, Okwui Enwezor, Snap Judgments: New few moments, simultaneously burst Amadou Chab-Toure...

...: The Film Society of Lincoln Center African Film Festival, Jean Marie Terra, Afrique, Je Te Ptumerai, 1992, film still, courtesy: The Film Society of Lincoln Center African Film Festival. the film sketches a complex history against Diawara does not share Sembene's view...

... and twenty-first centuries: the Manthia Diawara's African Cinema: Politics and Culture transition from pictorialism to idea-based image mak• and Black American Cinema, and Viola Shafik's Popular ing. With the dissolution of boundaries between the Egyptian Cinema; Gender, Class and Nation and Arab...

... November 201964 Nka and art history. In a 1992 interview with Manthia Diawara, Boyce commented, Whatever we black people do, it s said to be about identity, first and foremost. It becomes a blanket term for everything we do, regardless of what we re doing. 2 In his dis- cussion of how this process has...

... identify and don't iden• tutes a parasitic message designed to connote the tify. They engage in a form of "resistant spectator- image, to 'quicken' it."9 Wells's juxtaposition extends ship," Manthia Diawara's term to describe a practice the work of "naturalizing the cultural" reversal...

... Biennial 15, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2023. Courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation A t the end of Manthia Diawara s film Angela Davis: A World of Greater Freedom (2023), Angela Davis describes the role of philosophy as a way of inhabiting the world yet understanding it could be different. 1 The film...

.... 13 Melvin Edwards in Conversation with Manthia Diawara and Lydie Diakhat Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 30 (2012): 128. 14 Walters, Pan Africanism in the African Diaspora, 363. 15 Edwards, phone interview with the author, June 21, 2021. 16 There is some discrepancy about whether...

... rights, and either threatened with deportation or deported from the United Kingdom by the Home Office. As a filmmaker and cultural theorist, whose ongoing scholarship and art practice has made a singular contribution to African diasporic cultural studies, Manthia Diawara s most recent film Angela Davis...