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 'kou Tour' the dictator who was Guinea's first post-independence leader. Despite the years that have gone by, Diawara expects to be welcomed as an insider, and is shocked to discover that he is not. The Africa that Diawara finds is not the one on the verge of barbarism, as described in the Western press. Yet neither is it the Africa of his childhood, when the excitement of independence made everything seem possible for young Africans. His search for Sidim' Laye leads Diawara to profound meditations on Africa's culture. He suggests solutions that might overcome the stultifying legacy of colonialism and age-old social practices, yet that will mobilize indigenous strengths and energies. In the face of Africa's dilemmas, Diawara accords an important role to the culture of the diaspora as well as to traditional music and literature-to James Brown, Miles Davis, and Salif Keita, to Richard Wright, Spike Lee, and the ancient epics of the griots. And Diawara's journey enlightens us in the most disarming way with humor, conversations, and well-told tales.
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Manthia Diawara is Professor of Comparative Literature and Film, as well as Director of Africana Studies and the Institute of African American Affairs at New York University. He is the founder and editor of Black Renaissance Noire.
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In January 1996, thirty-two years after my parents and I had been expelled from our home in Kankan, I returned to Guinea to begin research for a film documentary on the country's former president, Sekou Toure. Lire la première page Parcourir les pages échantillon
Couverture | Copyright | Table des matières | Extrait | Index
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Diawara and Richard Wright
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Diawara's book is provocative and important for understanding African critical thinking in the twentieth century. The book is especially important for the "third perspective" it enables us to gain for a rereading of Richard Wright's <<Black Power>>. I strongly recommend this book to Wright scholars and African Americanists in general.
Jerry W. Ward, Jr., Lawrence Durgin Profesor of Literature, Tougaloo College
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Best book about Africa I have read
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The difficulty with books about Africa is that, for the most part, they do not say anything of substance, or give insight into the inner life of Africans. Professor Diawara's book was an extraordinary find for me. It reveals the inner life of Africans from the perspective of a American of West African birth: how Africans live and feel, the contradictions and difficulties transitioning from tribalism to colonialism to independence tainted by dependence on the West. It also is extraordinary in that it includes the perspective of African Americans, both viewed by Africans and viewed by Europeans. His perspectives on African and African-American music and films gives insight into the underlying cultural issues of both groups. Essential reading for those looking for a real understanding.
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