In Search of Africa

Name: In Search of Africa
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ISBN: 9780674004085

ISBN-10: 0674004086

ISBN-13: 9780674004085

Edition: 1998

Authors: Manthia Diawara

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"There I was, standing alone, unable to cry as I said goodbye to Sidim Laye, my best friend, and to the revolution that had opened the door of modernity for me--the revolution that had invented me." This book gives us the story of a quest for a childhood friend, for the past and present, and above all for an Africa that is struggling to find its future. In 1996 Manthia Diawara, a distinguished professor of film and literature in New York City, returns to Guinea, thirty-two years after he and his family were expelled from the newly liberated country. He is beginning work on a documentary about Skou Tour, the dictator who was Guinea's first post-independence leader. Despite the years that…

Book details

List price: $29.50
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/15/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 9.50" wide x 6.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Situation I



In My Home



Williams Sassine on Afro-Pessimism Situation


Situation II



Cemoko's Sekou Toure



Return Narratives Djibril Tamsir Niane's Sundiata


Salif Keita's Mandjou


Afro-Kitsch and Woodstock in Bamako


Toumani Diabate: A Kora Master


Situation III



The Shape of the Future


Modernity Is in Evil Forest


Culture and Nationalism as Resistance to Globalization


The Markets in West Africa and the Devaluation of the CFA Franc


How to Compete



Finding Sidime Laye



Africa's Art of Resistance


Blinded by My Loss


The Curse of the Masks


The Fang Byeri Statue as Primitive Art


Cheri Samba: The Stereotype Strikes Back


Sidime Laye's Song of Resistance



Sidime Laye One Year Later


Situation IV


The Homeboy and the Myth of Cain


The Black Man in Bondage: The Construction of Mobility in Superfly and Shaft


Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It


The 'Hood in Spike Lee's Cinema


Homeboys and the Reclaiming of the Stereotype in Black Film


Toward a New Common Ground and Mentality


References


Index