HOST:King Juan Carlos Center
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Screenings
4.12.02 Fri
Wahala
Matiki Anoff
A short film about an African girl who meets a Nigerian mystic on a New York City subway. Through their interactions, she discovers that appearances
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The Sunglasses
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Lunettes noires
Owell A. Brown
Ivory Coast, 1997, 6 min. French with English subtitles.
Bamako Sigi-Kan an exerpt Manthia Diawara
Poignant interviews with youth in Bamako on the subject of sexuality.
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About the Panelists...
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“A Look at Cross-Generational Africa Youth Culture”
Featuring Matiki Anoff, Owell A. Brown, Manthia Diawara
“Africa is ...” examines urban youth cultures in Bamako, France and New York. These issues — intricate, multifaceted and always evolving — affect the way youth view themselves, each other and in essence, the world. With this in mind, our panelists’ films reflect the complexity of African youth culture with themes ranging from xenophobia and immigration to courtship and sexuality. The complexity of each narrative, the ingenuity by which each is told and the varying degrees of cinematic inventiveness
Moderator
May Joseph brings an eclecticism that embodies the diversity of the panelists and their films. She is an Associate Professor of Global Studies at Pratt Institute, New York. She is the author of Nomadic Identities: The Performance of Citizenship (Minnesota, 1999) and coeditor (with Jennifer Natalya Fink) of Performing Hybridity (Minnesota, 1999). Her work has been published in numerous scholarly journals including Embodied Utopias, Corpus Delecti, Soul, Oxford Literary Review and the African American Review. She is on the editorial board of Cultural Studies.
Location
King Juan Carlos Center
@ New York University.
53 Washington Square South
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