Director: Manthia Diawara
Production: Lydie Diakhaté,
Jürgen Bock, K’a Yéléma Productions, Lumiar Cité/Maumaus, Goethe-Institut
Editing: Adam Khalil,
France Langlois
Camera: Edgardo Parada,
Serge Blerald
Camera Assistent:
Mansita Diawara
Sound: Awam Ampka,
Serge Blerald

Co-Production: Goethe-Institut e.V., K’a Yéléma Productions, Lumiar Cité/Maumaus

Partnership: AFRICA.CONT/Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Portugal

Support: INA - Institut national de l’audiovisuel, Johann Jacobs Museum,
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Portuguese Ministry of Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts.

Countries: USA, France, Germany, Portugal
Year: 2015
Runtime: 59’
HD Video, colour, sound
Languages: English, French
Subtitles: English, French, German, Portuguese

With Wole Soyinka.

Based on archive material, Manthia Diawara organises an imagined dialogue between Léopold Senghor, one of the founders of the concept of Negritude, and Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. According to Manthia Diawara, ‘the film probes the current relevance of the concept of Negritude, against the views of its many critics, not only to the decolonisation and independence movements of the 1950s and 1960s, but also to an understanding of the contemporary artistic and political scenes of nationalism, religious intolerance, multiculturalism, the exodus of Africans and other populations from the South, and xenophobic migration policies in the West.’