Art critic specializing in the arts and cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora Lydie Diakhaté has written for various magazines and newspapers. “Melvin Edwards and the Poetic of a Blacksmith,” Wasafiri Magazine, Routledge (August 2015); “Jo Ractliffe, Photographer from South Africa”, NKA, Spring 2012. “Salif Traoré, photographe sans frontière / Photographer without borders”, in Salif… Continue reading Selected articles
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Negritude: A Dialogue between Wole Soyinka and Senghor
A Documentary directed by Manthia Diawara (52 mins.,France/USA/Germany/Portugal,2015) This imagined dialogue between Leopold Sedar Senghor, one of the founding fathers of Negritude, and Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, 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,… Continue reading Negritude: A Dialogue between Wole Soyinka and Senghor
Real Life Documentary Festival 2008
REAL-LIFE DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL: A PAN-AFRICAN FESTIVAL OF DOCUMENTARY FILMS 3rd Edition: May 31st to June 6th 2008, in Accra and Kumasi We are one of a few festivals that provide a forum for documentary films and filmmakers who focus on African and African-diasporic themes. Our objective is to stimulate Africans to document their own histories… Continue reading Real Life Documentary Festival 2008
Real Life Documentary Festival 2006
Real Life 2006 REAL LIFE: A PAN-AFRICAN FESTIVAL OF DOCUMENTARY FILMS IN ACCRA A MESSAGE FROM THE PRODUCERS, DIRECTORS AND VOLUNTEERS We collectively welcome you to our first Real-Life Documentary Film Festival. This initiative is part of alarger project by a newly formed archival and documentation project called the West African DocumentaryForum. We hope to encourage people to use the documentary medium to produce films for educational and cultural purposes. During this week you will see varieties of films exploring the lives, histories and situations of people of African descent in Africa and the rest of the world. Our program targets both young and older people, filmmakers and potential ones, as well as spectators forwhom we want to make watching documentaries a part of their visual culture. The program has high schoolstudents in… Continue reading Real Life Documentary Festival 2006
“Maison Tropicale“ (2008, 58min)
“Maison Tropicale“ (2008, 58min) Un film documentaire réalisé par Manthia Diawara Synopsis A la fin des années 1940, le designer et architecte Jean Prouvé dessina trois « Maisons Tropicales » préfabriquées, en aluminium, pour loger les administrateurs des colonies Françaises en Afrique. Une des maisons a été envoyée à Niamey, au Niger, et les deux autres à… Continue reading “Maison Tropicale“ (2008, 58min)
“Conakry kas” (2004, 83min)
“Conakry kas” (2004, 83min) . Documentary Film Golden Dhow, 1er Prix, Zanzibar International Film Festival 2004 . Meilleur documentaire TV, 1er Prix Fiction&Documentaire, FESPACO 2005 Un film documentaire réalisé par Manthia Diawara Synopsis Dès 1958, année d’indépendance de la Guinée, la révolution culturelle mise en place par Sékou Touré, premier président de la République de… Continue reading “Conakry kas” (2004, 83min)
STARS OF ETHIOPIA: PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHESTER HIGGINS JR
March 1 – May 1, 2011 Location: Kimmel Center, NYU Windows Gallery Space LaGuardia Place and West 3rd street New York, NY 10012 An exhibition organized by The Institute of African American Affairs at NYU Curated by Lydie Diakhaté An outdoor series of 13 large-scale portraits from Ethiopia displayed at the Kimmel Center Windows Gallery… Continue reading STARS OF ETHIOPIA: PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHESTER HIGGINS JR
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