Manthia Diawara

Manthia Diawara (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la silimiin goli December biɛɣ'pishi yini ka dali yuuni 1953) nyɛla Malian sab'sabira, sinii yaara n-ti pahi nucheeni baŋda. O nyɛla ŋun mali University Professor yuli New York University (NYU), ni ka o nyɛ Director of the Institute of Afro-American Affairs.

Manthia Diawara
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Piligu biɛhigu mini shikuru baŋsim

Diawara nyɛla bɛ ni daa so tiŋ yuli booni Bamako, Mali, ka nya o tuuli shikuru baŋsim France. Di nyaaŋ, o daa deegi PhD shikuru yuli booni Indiana University yuuni 1985. Pɔi ka o piligi wuhibu NYU, Diawara nyɛla ŋu wuhi University of Pennsylvania mini University of California at Santa Barbara.

Fellowships and honors

O nyɛla ŋun daa pahi ninvuɣ shɛba ban daa piigi, The National Black Programming Consortium, Inc., Columbus, Ohio, 1992, 1989; Jury Member, The Paul Robeson Award, The Pan-African Film Festival of Ouagadougou, 1987; NAACP Top of the Mountain Award, 1998.

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Selected bibliography

Books (author)

• African Cinema: Politics and Culture (First ed.). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 1992. ISBN 0-253-20707-X.
• In Search of Africa (First ed.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1998. ISBN 0-674-00408-6.
• Levinthal, David; Diawara, Manthia (1999). Blackface (First ed.). Santa Fe, NM: Arena. ISBN 1-892041-06-5.
• The 1960s in Bamako: Malick Sidibé and James Brown. Paper series on the arts, culture, and society, no. 11. New York: Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, 2001. OCLC 47999579. About Malick Sidibé and James Brown.
• We Won't Budge: An Exile in the World (First ed.). New York: Basic Civitas Books. 2003. ISBN 0-465-01709-6.
• Diawara, Manthia; Knape, Gunilla; Magnin, Andre (2004). Malick Sidibe: Photographs (First ed.). Germany: Steidl/Hasselblad Center. ISBN 3-88243-973-4.

Books (editor)

• Diawara, Manthia (1993). Black American Cinema (AFI Film Readers) (First ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-90397-1.
• Baker, Houston; Diawara, Manthia; Lindeborg, Ruth H. (1996). Black British Cultural Studies: A Reader (Black Literature and Culture Series) (First ed.). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-14482-8.
• Mosely, Walter; Diawara, Manthia; Taylor, Clyde; Austin, Regina (1999). Black Genius: African American Solutions to African American Problems (First ed.). New York: W.W. Norton & Co. ISBN 0-393-31978-4.

Articles

• Diawara, Manthia (May 4, 2003). "Lives: The Pretender". The New York Times Magazine: 108. [1].

Filmography

• Sembène: the Making of African Cinema, 1994.
• Rouch in Reverse, 1995.
• In Search of Africa, 1997.
• Diaspora Conversations: from Goree to Dogon, 2000
• Bamako Siki Kan, 2002.
• Conakry Kas, 2003.
• Who's Afraid of Ngugi?, 2006.
• Maison Tropicale, 2008.
• Édouard Glissant: one world in relation, 2010.
• Negritude, a Dialogue between Soyinka and Senghor, 2015.
• An Opera of the World, 2017. The film was screened at documenta 14.
• A Letter from Yene (2022).
• AI: African Intelligence (2022). The film was screened at the Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival.
• Angela Davis: A World of Greater Freedom Archived 2023-03-22 at the Wayback Machine (2023). The film was screened at the Sharjah Biennial

External links

• Official Website.
• "Manthia Diawara. The Concept of Négritude. 2012". YouTube