Manthia Diawara

Mali – United States

Professor of Comparative Literature and Film at New York University

A native of Mali, Professor Diawara received his education in France and later traveled to the United States for his university studies.  He has taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara and the University of Pennsylvania.  He is the author of We Won’t Budge: An African Exile in the World (Basic Civitas Books, 2003), Black-American Cinema: Aesthetics and Spectatorship (ed. Routledge, 1993), African Cinema: Politics and Culture (Indiana University Press, 1992), and In Search of Africa (Harvard University Press, 1998).  He has published widely on the topic of film and literature of the Black Diaspora.  Professor Diawara also collaborated with Ngûgî wa Thiong’o in making the documentary Sembene Ousmane: The Making of the African Cinema, and directed the German-produced documentary Rouch in Reverse.

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Mali – Estados Unidos

Profesor de Comparative Literature and Film en New York University

Originario de Mali, el profesor Diawara recibió su educación en Francia y luego viajó a Estados Unidos para sus estudios universitarios. Ha enseñado en la Universidad de California en Santa Bárbara y en la Universidad de Pensilvania. Es autor de We Won’t Budge: An African Exile in the World (Basic Civitas Books, 2003), Black-American Cinema: Aesthetics and Spectatorship (ed. Routledge, 1993), African Cinema: Politics and Culture (Indiana University Press, 1992) e In Search of Africa (Harvard University Press, 1998). Ha publicado ampliamente sobre el tema del cine y la literatura de la diáspora africana. El profesor Diawara también colaboró con Ngûgî wa Thiong’o en la realización del documental Sembene Ousmane: The Making of the African Cinema, y dirigió el documental producido en Alemania Rouch in Reverse.