African Cities Documentary Series
NYU film professors Manthia Diawara and Awam Amkpa have been making a series of documentaries about African cities. Click on the titles to see excerpts of the films Bamako Sigi Kan and Conakry Bas, by Manthia Diawara, in streaming RealVideo.
BAMAKO SIGI-KAN
Manthia Diawara
(76 min./Color/2002)
“This original documentary shot by Arthur Jafa brings a
new look to the modern African city and enables a better understanding
from the inside of how democracy takes root in Mali. Discover
how politics in the city and in everyday life is lived in a changing
society still inscribed within tradition as the men and women
of Bamako tell their own stories.”
— Third World Newsreel Website
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Women’s Group Sabarni Dancing
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CONAKRY KAS
Manthia Diawara
(82 min./Color/2003)
“In January 2003, Director Manthia Diawara visited Guinea-Conakry to see what was left of the artists (Ballets Africains, Bembeya Jazz National) and intellectuals (D.T. Niane, Telivel Diallo) of the Guinean Cultural revolution; and how the citizens of Conakry were coping with globalization. The film casts a nostalgic look at Pan-Africanism in the 1960s, and asks what is the utopia of the Guinean youth today.”
— Third World Newsreel Website
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Conakry Changes Masks |