Speaker details
Manthia Diawara
Professor of Comparative Literature and Africana Studies, New York University
Alisa LaGamma
Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer Curator in Charge, Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Event details
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
About The Event
Join Met curator Alisa LaGamma for a conversation with Manthia Diawara, a writer, filmmaker, and leading scholar of the African diaspora, presented in conjunction with the exhibition Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara. Explore the tensions between West Africa’s traditions and modernity as LaGamma and Diawara draw from the exhibition and from one of Diawara’s signature texts, In Search of Africa, which was shaped by his formative experiences in Guinea, Mali, and Senegal.
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