Director: Manthia Diawara
Production: Manthia Diawara
Editing: Shinyu Yang
Camera: Yesufu Shangoshola, Clyde Taylor
Sound: Manthia Diawara
Country: Mali, USA
Year: 2000
Runtime: 47’
Colour, sound
Languages: English, French
Subtitles: English

With Danny Glover.

Actor Danny Glover and director Manthia Diawara travel through West Africa, from Gorée to Dogon, creating conversations that link different sides and accounts of the African diaspora. Diaspora Conversations traces a journey of memory. Traversing various locales, they negotiate the current impact of globalisation and the historical questions that both confront and facilitate community. Diawara’s prose-like narrative guides the viewer through this video diary that examines the conflicting, yet mutually intersecting legacies of colonialism and cultural tradition. Diaspora Conversations provokes the viewer to interrogate ‘cultural tourism’.